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10 Downing Street - PM calls for more women in boardrooms
The Prime Minister has called for more women in Britain’s boardrooms as he met leading female executives at a breakfast meeting to mark International Women’s Day.
At the meeting, Gordon Brown said politicians and businesses need to work together to ensure the talent and skills of women are properly represented in the boardroom.
Gordon Brown congratulated the attending women on the “huge contribution” they have made to bringing about change.
But he said more needed to be done after a survey of more than 1,000 adults showed that almost two out of three believed there were not enough female directors in big business.
In a podcast released earlier in the day, the PM said:
“We all recognise the value of strong role models for women in all walks of life - and there are many in politics, the arts, public services, sport and the third sector, but there are too few in Britain’s boardrooms.
When more than half of graduates are women, it is completely unacceptable that some of our top 100 public companies have not a single woman on their boards, and that none at all have a majority of women on their boards.”
The meeting was also attended by Women and Equalities Minister Harriet Harman, Business, Innovation and Skills Secretary Peter Mandleson, and Trade Minister Lord Davies.
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