Women in Management 1
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Women comprise 30% of managers in England, 29%
in Scotland and 33% in Wales
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Managerial occupations remain strongly
gender-segregated. While women make up 73% of managers in health
and social services, they only make up 6% in production.
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Women’s representation also varies by
sector. While 40% of managers in the public sector are female,
in the private sector it is just 28%.
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Data from the National Management Salary
Survey in 2001 revealed that the average female manager earned
£34,789, while the average male manager earned £40,289. Women
managers therefore earned around 86% of the average annual
managerial salary of men.
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Women in the Boardroom 2+3
In all UK listed companies :
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Less than 1% of chairs are women.
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4% of executive director posts
(including Chief Executive Officer) are held by women.
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6% of non-executive director posts (employed
largely to offer strategic, specific and objective advice at
board meetings) are held by women.
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Overall, 4% of directorships are held by
women.
In FTSE 100 Companies:
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Just over one in ten non executive posts and
one in 40 executive posts are held by women.
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Only one company had a female Chief Executive
Officer, in 2002.
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Only 7.2% of directorships are held by women
and 39 firms have no female directors.
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16 of the top 20 FTSE companies had women
directors, but only eight of the bottom 20 firms.
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Women in Politics 4+5
Parliament
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The 2001 General Election returned 118 women
MPs to the House of Commons, a decrease of two from the previous
election. Women represent 17% of all MPs.
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There are 12 minority ethnic MPs, two of whom
are women.
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24% of British members of the European Parliament are female.
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33% of Cabinet Ministers are women.
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In April 2002 32% of Ministers in the Scottish Parliament, 63%
of Ministers in the National Assembly for Wales and 37% of
Ministers in the Northern Ireland Assembly were women.
Local Government
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In 2001, there were 36 women chief executives
in England and Wales out of a total of 351 local authorities.
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In May 2001 29% of local councillors were
women and 2.5% of councillors were of ethnic minority origin.
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Women in the Senior Civil Service 4
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Women in the Police Force 1
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Women in Judiciary 6
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6% of High Court Judges are women - six
out of a total of 107. There are no High Court Judges from an
minority ethnic background.
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21% of District Judges (Magistrates’ Courts)
are women - 22 out of a total of 105. Of these women, 5% are
from an minority ethnic.
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Women in Public Appointments 7+8
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34% of all the boards of
non-departmental public bodies, nationalised industries, public
corporations and health bodies are held by women.
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2.3% of all national and regional public
appointments are held by minority ethnic women.
NHS Trust Chairs
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Sources
1 - Women and Men in Britain : Management’,
EOC, 2002
2 — Review of the role and
effectiveness of non-executive directors, Derek Higgs, January 2003
3 - The 2002 Female FTSE report: Women
Directors Moving Forward, Dr Val Singh and Professor Susan
Vinnicombe, Cranfield School of Management, November 2002
4 — Key indicators of women’s position in
Britain, Dench et al, WEU, November 2002
5 - Room at the Top? A Study of Women Chief
Executives in Local Government in England and Wales, Pam Fox and
Mike Broussin. Bristol Business School, undated
6 - The Lord Chancellor’s Department, January
2003
7 — Public Bodies 2002
8 - Department of Health, February 2002
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