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Five years on from the first Sex and Power report, the Equality and Human Rights Commission publishes its first survey on women in positions of power and influence. Part of the Commission’s Working Better project, the Sex and Power report reveals:

Women hold just 11 per cent of FTSE 100 directorships and only 19.3 per cent of the positions in Parliament.

This year, there are fewer women holding top posts in 12 of the 25 categories for which figures are available. In another five categories, the number of women remains unchanged since 2007’s index. Women’s representation has increased in just eight areas.

The report traditionally estimates the number of years it will take for women to achieve equality in key areas at the present rate of progress. This year’s report indicates it will now take 15 years longer (55 years in total) for women to achieve equal status at senior levels in the judiciary, and women directors in FTSE 100 companies could be waiting eight years longer (73 years in total).

If women were to achieve equal representation among Britain’s 31,000 top positions of power, the Commission estimates over 5,600 ‘missing’ women would rise through the ranks to positions of real influence.

Contents

Progress: a snail’s pace 5
Sex and Power 2008 Index: Women in selected ‘top jobs’ over the last five years1 7
A squandering of talent 11
Aspiration gives way to frustration 15
Not just a women’s issue 17
Women’s representation in Parliament: the international perspective44 20
Change brings wider benefits 21
notes 24
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Notes

1 Indicator values for 2003–06 repeated from Equal Opportunities Commission (2007) Sex and Power: who runs Britain? 2007, except for amendments to entries for small businesses and senior police officers. See notes 10 and 19 for details.
2 UK Parliament (2008) Members of Parliament by gender: numbers, updated 25 July 2008.
3 UK Parliament (2008)Her Majesty’s Government, updated 11March 2008.
4 UK Parliament (2008) Breakdown of Lords by party strength and type of peerage, updated 2 June 2008.
5 Scottish Parliament (2008) Female MSPs: Session 3, updated 10 January 2008.
6 National Assembly for Wales website (2008)Member profiles, accessed 10 June 2008.
7 Keystroke Knowledge Ltd; COSLA website, accessed 16 April 2008.
8 European Parliament website (2008) Your MEPs by country and political group, accessed 10 June 2008.
9 Sealy, R., Singh, V. and Vinnicombe, S. (2007) The female FTSE report 2007.
10 IFF Research Ltd (2008) The annual survey of small businesses’ opinions 2006/07 (ASB 2006/07), BERR URN 07/389. These statistics relate to businesses with employees and show the percentages of businesses either led by a woman or having a management team made up mostly of women. The 2005 entry has been amended from 18 per cent to 12 per cent for consistency with earlier and later surveys. The 18 per cent referred to majority female ownership of SMEs as opposed to female leadership (owners, partners and directors).
11 Websites of Media companies in the FTSE 350 and the BBC, accessed April 2008.
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