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Carol Andrews and Aongus Hegarty: More women are business leaders, but we still have a way to go

The latest CSO Gender Balance in Business Survey shows progress in getting more females into senior roles, but no grounds for complacency

Gender Equality

Number of female CEOs in Ireland increases – report

Female chairpersons increased to almost 19 per cent

Lack of climate targets among reasons 21% of investors voted against chair - Grafton Group

Woodies-owner launched consultation after shareholders voted not to to re-elect Michael Roney in May

Lucinda Creighton: Government in a quandary as vote on gender could hand it a bloody nose

There were plans to put the referendum before the people but there’s a realisation now among ministers that the issues are potentially far more contentious than they bargained for

Bank of Ireland appoints new chief operating officer of retail division

Appointment comes with the bank under pressure over gender balance in senior roles

This Working Life

The future of sales is female: why the sector needs a rebrand

Although the role of sales has changed, some of the old cliches remain and the industry has one of the worst gender gaps of all. Companies need to do more to encourage female talent and to shed any ‘hard sell’ image

Architect says her award in ‘draining’ WRC gender discrimination case unlikely to encourage others

Auveen Coombes-Lynch won her action over a a “toxic” male culture in the Housing Agency

Gender equality

Women must comprise 40% of public company boards by 2026

European Parliament has approved the Women on Boards directive 10 years after it was first proposed

This Working Life

This Working Life: Tackling the gender gap needs to start with education

Businesses have to start encouraging young women to work with them by engaging with schools and colleges

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This Working Life: Employers must act now to meet deadline on gender pay gap reporting

Guidance setting out in detail what is required of firms under the Gender Pay Gap Information Act has been published by the government

Out of Office: World Bank to send Ukraine $723m; ‘insufficient’ gender diversity in financial sector

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Gender diversity in financial services sector ‘remains insufficient’

Report from Central Bank of Ireland found female representation among senior role appointees stood at 31 per cent in 2021

Testing service helps lab tech firm to combat the challenge of Covid

After an initial ‘panic’, Evelyn O’Toole pivoted her firm CLS to provide coronavirus testing for medtech clients

Female executives more likely to be hired externally than promoted from within

In the companies surveyed by the CSO two-thirds of all appointments to senior executive posts within the past two years came from within the business, with one-third of positions filled externally.