And if you don’t believe me think on this. For every female boss in Britain’s top FTSE companies there are more than 20 men. Of those outside th e top 350 companies, more than half the companies have no women in executive roles at all, with more than a quarter of boards still all male or with only one woman.
At last the interminable summer of campaigning has ended and it has not all been about shoes and clothes as it was in the not too distant past. Well it was, only this time the tables were turned and it waswho was berated for his Prada shoes and bespoke suit as if the campaign didn’t have more important issues to focus on.
I have been a boss. In fact I was a boss at far too young an age to have even begun to understand the complexities of handling people, particularly people who believe they are better equipped to do the job than you. The first thing Liz Truss needs to do is apologise to a school here in Yorkshire which she claims ‘let down’ pupils with ‘poor education standards’ ‘low expectations ‘ and ‘a lack of opportunity’, which is all a bit rich seeing as though she got into Oxford from there.
As is a TV programme, largely produced to entertain, This Morning this week spun their wheel of fortune with the prize of paying your fuel bills for a quarter. That’s how much trouble we are in.