What are law firms doing to ensure more women rise to their senior ranks? Helen Mooney talks to several firms that have signed up to a new programme designed to tackle female under-representation
The under-representation of women at the top of corporate Britain is no secret and continues to hit the headlines. Numerous reports – including the Davies Report and the Women on Boards: Six-Month Monitoring Report, both of which were released in 2011 – have highlighted what now seems to be an age-old problem: not enough women make it to the top.
