Mapping out inequalities
This past weekend, a seminar ‘Women in the Economic Crisis’ was held.
As Tim O’Brien reports:
The seminar, which addressed the question, “Would we be in this mess if more women were in charge?”, heard business, particularly finance, was one of the areas where women were least visible.
Some 89 per cent of board members were male, rising to 93 per cent when it came to heads of corporate bodies. The board of the Irish Central Bank was, it was claimed, exclusively male.
Great to see a seminar address the fundamental issues that caused our economic meltdown. Because we all know that genitalia makes all the difference
It also seems that women don’t know where to go for information on funding or mentoring.
So, more women need to be in charge in areas of business or finance but they require someone else to tell them how to source capital? Here are the lines. Colour them in, do.
It really irritates me when people suggest you need a female politican/captain of industry/authority figure to have gender equality issues addressed.
Who were the women at the above congress? The money hole that is the NWCI and their reps?