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Professor Susan Vinnicombe at the Cranfield School of Management,ghd hair straighteners, the Government's official monitor of women on boards, said PwC was "not doing enough" to change the culture when it came to promoting senior women, such as encouraging more job shares at the very top of the organisation. However, she also warned that if the likes of PwC, which is traditionally looked up to for best practice,coach outlet online, could not get it right,cheap ghd straighteners, it left "little hope" for other companies. "It's a shame. People have been working for a long time on getting more women into senior positions and what progress have we made,coach outlet? Not a lot. There's been lots of talk but an abject failure in the UK to promote more women to the top,http://www.cheapghduksale2.tumblr.com." Official statistics show that in Britain's biggest 100 listed companies. This is up from 12.5pc two years ago, but is Prof,coach outlet factory online. Vinnicombe explained that companies were getting better at attracting more women at the junior level and retaining them after maternity leave. But there is still a "long way to go" to see an equal number of women as men progress to the top. PwC has begun training all 17,000 of its workers to help them recognise how their decision-making is influenced by deep-held beliefs and assumptions rooted in past experience – and then challenging these beliefs. Ms Bagley said: "Leadership is often linked in people’s minds with attributes such as gravitas and impact,http://www.coachoutletts.webs.com, which they associate with men. The effect is many women are simply not putting themselves forward for these roles as they don’t think they fit the mould. But also they are less likely to be perceived by others as leaders or having the potential to be a leader. "It is also vital to provide accessible female role models at all levels of the firm. If people can’t look around their office and identify aspirational female role models, alarm bells should be ringing in executives’ heads." She said some progress had been made at PwC,coach outlet, including that 15pc of its partners are female,ghd sale, up from 8pc in 2008. "It is important we recognise success. However,http://www.coachoutletfactoryis.webs.com, it is equally, if not more important, for businesses such as ours to talk openly about the barriers we face and how we are addressing the areas where we need to do more. "The reality is that there are still a number of barriers businesses need to overcome before satisfactory progress is made. This includes tackling the unconscious assumptions people make about leadership, which are influenced by our history of predominantly male leaders." Read in full Related-articles:
