BBC NEWS | Business | More women 'should get top jobs'
The EOC [Equal Opportunites Commission] research found the lives of people in this country were changing, with women having babies later and men spending more time with their children.
In its report, Sex and Power: Who Runs Britain?, the EOC said women made up 9% of top business leaders, 9% of national newspaper editors, 7% of the senior judiciary, and 7% of senior police officers.
Women accounted for 23% of top management in the civil service and 18% of MPs, but sex equality was "far from sorted", the commission said.
It is interesting that despite legislation, chaning attitudes, females being more successful in education and high profile women being successful in business that a so called glass ceiling still exists. A glass ceiling being where women cannot rise above a certain level although it is invisible (hence its made of glass).
When considering key elements of complexity based management theory, and innovation and creativity, it suggests that the more variety the better the outcome, as there are different perspectives, cultures, opinions and ideas being brought forth. Any system that therefore limits this variety is reducing its ability to perform optimally and reducing its ability to compete and survive in an environment that changes as quickly as it does today. As the report suggests businesses are missing out, with no real need to do so.
Let's end this and try and get some kind of balance. After all its in everyone's mutual benefit for organisations, businesses and Government to be more effective...