Women leaving organisations : bathtubs & cupcakes…
“A tap takes 20 minutes to fill an empty bathtub. The drain takes 30 minutes to empty the tub when it is full. If both the tap and the drain are opened at the same time, how long will it take to fill the empty tub?” Women are still talked about as an oddity...
Power Shift 2014 Women and Finance
Tomorrow 28th May Averil will lead the Cafe’ Conversations ‘Developing Women in Financial Careers’ answering the question ‘Leadership appraisals: are female styles part of the metrics?’ at the Power Shift 2014 Women and Finance, organised...
I am not your Mummy!
At a network event, when speaking to a delightful woman, she mentioned that in her friendship group, many of the Mums had been made redundant in recent years and that they had lost confidence and career direction as a result. We know that more women are usually laid...
The Great Coutts Debate
“This House believes that positive discrimination for women is no longer necessary”. I chose to oppose the motion but I could have argued for either side. Here is the gist of my five minute speech: “On the face of it, I am in absolute agreement with the proposers....