In February 2011, the British government advisor Lord Davies of Abersoch published the report entitled Women on Boards. He appealed to the representatives of the UK's largest companies traded on the stock exchange (FTSE 350) to strengthen the representation of women on their boards to 25% by 2015. The top hundred companies (FTSE 100) were expected to fill 25% of positions with women, not only in top management but also in the whole organization.
According to research by Cranfield University, women represented only 135 (12.5%) out of 1,076 directorships in top management positions in hundreds of the UK's largest companies (FTSE 100) in 2010. Today the People Management server states that it is 17.4%.
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