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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.