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Any other business

Any other business: Turn down those token directorships, girls, and tell them you want to be chairman

Plus: The Co-op’s latest crisis, and HMRC’s demon eyes

15 March 2014

9:00 AM

15 March 2014

9:00 AM

Last Saturday was International Women’s Day, but we celebrated early in Helmsley when my Yorkshire home town was featured in national news last month as a beacon of recession-beating female entrepreneurship: 60 per cent of our new ventures have female owners. This is shaping up to be a good year for women in business generally, what with Vince Cable voicing support for all-women shortlists for directorships of FTSE 100 companies with a view to achieving 25 per cent representation by 2015, up from 20 per cent today.

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