Blog 6 : How business can put women in the boardroom

In todays day and age we are seeing more and more powerful women in the business and mainly political industry, for example 'Theresa May as UK prime minister, Hillary Clinton running for the US presidency, Angela Merkel as German chancellor: more and more'. It's clear political positions are being taken but unfortunately executive roles in business rent quite the same. Female representation in business is a very big thing for me because I agree with equality in the work place and that everyone should have the same chance based on their skills and assets, not their gender.

One thing that tarnishes the representation of women in the work place is the media as in recent years they have been portrayed as housewives and reliant on their man when this simply isn't the case. "There has been progress: in the past five years, the number of women on the boards of the FTSE 100 top UK quoted companies has more than doubled to nearly 27 per cent. But this is not good enough; for women to truly be represented in business they need to be in the most senior executive positions." so it's clear that the number of women are rising to the more executive positions. I believe this is excellent as for one it creates a gender equality but it brings a more diverse working environment working within company's. Men and also myself are categorized as egotistic, alpha male and not always thoroughly thinking about decisions made. In comparison with women who are known to be more organized, level headed and take a slightly more cautious approach when completing tasks set for them, proving that they are suitable for the workplace.


Unfortunately women receive fewer opportunity at shots at senior roles; often facing discrimination if they want children; and, even when they are happy in work, in many cases earning less than men doing the same work. I find this an absolute disgrace and it really upsets for someone is has been brought up in a modern where discrimination is at it's all time low, so to read that a human being is paid for doing the same job based on there gender shocks me and I cant help but feel as if we are going back in time...

In conclusion to this article its very clear to me that having women on boards is not just good for women; it is good for business and shows these sexist bigots who believe only men can be executives to come to the reality that it's 2016 and everyone has different skills that work effectively. Even though women in the world of business is rising it's not quite where I would like it to be, woman need support and given as many opportunity as they can to help progress  in there career, if I ever became a manager of a business I would not discriminate against women I would encourage them to be powerful leaders and work they're way up the business.