The likes of Alison Cooper at Imperial Tobacco and Angela Ahrendts at Burberry are leading the way and are in charge of two of the biggest firms here in the UK. Other great female leaders including Dame Mary Perkins, the co-founder of the Specsavers chain, and Julie Meyer who runs the investment firm Ariadne Capital.
More than 22% of executives are now women and they can source inspiration from these prominent female leaders taking centre stage.
In my experience the most successful women I have worked with have tended to be incredibly loyal and very driven, two personal qualities that I have always highly prized and admired.
When I think of the women working currently within my business, their talent and professionalism have been instrumental to the success of my most successful operations.
There’s no doubt that women bring a completely different set of skills and experiences to the world of business. The way they approach situations and their attitudes has helped to alter the dynamic of the work-place for the better.1
The result? The working environment is just as professional but less confrontational or competitive as often can be the case in a male dominated office or workplace.
It is has been refreshing to see this shift in senior management but we still have a long way to go.
The US workforce is well ahead of us – of the Fortune 500 companies, 84% now have women on their boards. Whereas 45% of FTSE-100 companies still have an exclusively male boards.
In the UK, I'd like to see more women come into business as a result of their own personal achievements, it needs to happen organically rather than through things like the introduction of legislation or intervention.nically rather than through things like the introduction of legislation or intervention.
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