18/02/2012
David Cameron – will he won’t he set boardroom targets
It seems from Australia to China, to our nordic neighbours and back to us…ecomonists the world over are concurring that ‘not’ exploiting womens full business potential is like having all six numbers on the lottery ticket but not validating it! Its a huge opportunity missed and a massive economic oversight. David Cameron said as much as ‘its failing our whole economy’.
His attendance at a Nordic-Baltic Summit is hopefully helping him establish some ideas to get women working at a senior level in Britian and sited much evidence between women in leadership and top business performance.
Both Norway and Iceland established 40% women quotas in 2003.
Someone even produced a rather jazzy figure..startling it is size and its rather large leap but if female entrepreneurship reached there same levels as the US..then there would be 600,000 extra women owned businesses and that would amount to an extra £42 billion to the economey. Perhaps these findings should be shared with the EU??