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4 Jun 2013

Author:
Onrec (UK)

Women must be ambitious for change in business [UK]

everywoman...welcomes the Women’s Business Council’s report launched today (Tuesday, 4 June 2012), outlining recommendations to Government aimed at increasing the role women play in business and the workplace. Karen Gill, co-founder of everywoman, says: “The report recognises the overwhelming business case for raising the status of women in the economic community and the council’s recommendations will hopefully facilitate positive change…Companies such as Asda [part of Walmart], Cisco, RBS, Santander, Nationwide, Alcatel-Lucent, and TNT [part of TPG] work with everywoman to support the development of their female employees…everywoman recently launched Ambition Hour, a campaign...[which includes]…“Think, Act, Report...a voluntary scheme that encourages companies to think about women's equality in the workplace and now covers 1.3 million employees...