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NewsGovernment-backed review says it will scrutinise female leadership
The Review Board has announced it will investigate how female representation in leadership positions at British businesses can be improved.
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AnalysisOpinion: If that is what you call “success” – you can keep it
“The retail workforce is dominated by women up to a certain level, after which they often disappear into the ether or remain in the shadows.”
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NewsNew Look and Debenhams pledge support to Be Inspired campaign
New Look and Debenhams have both pledged their support to Retail Week’s Be Inspired campaign by becoming retail partners.
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VideoThe Retail Week with Gracia Amico: Inspiring future female leaders
Retail Week Be Inspired aims to promote the careers of female leaders in the industry. We ask what retailers are doing to encourage women in retail.
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OpinionOpinion: In today's retail environment it makes business sense to be inspired
“There are three billion women in the world who don’t look like supermodels and only eight that do.”
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AnalysisBe Inspired: How retailers can foster more women leaders
Women make up 60% of retail’s workforce yet just 10% of executive boards. Retail Week asks what can be done to ensure gender diversity.
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NewsBe Inspired: The industries that can teach retail about nurturing female talent
Retailers’ record on promoting women to the top is not great compared with the rest of the business world. Perhaps it’s time to learn from companies outside the sector.
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OpinionSir Ian Cheshire: Mentoring helps women get ahead in retail
It’s easy to forget that gender diversity is still an issue, especially in the retail industry, so a recent report comes as quite a shock.
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AnalysisBe Inspired: Boohoo boss Carol Kane – inspiring creative stars of the future
“I wanted to be able to walk down the high street and see something I’d touched,” says Carol Kane of her ambitions as a design school graduate.
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CartoonBlower’s retail cartoon: Retail Week's Be Inspired campaign
Cartoonist Patrick Blower’s take on Retail Week’s Be Inspired campaign, which seeks to rally the next generation of female retail leaders.
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OpinionOpinion: Ignore talent at your peril, but ignore gender to your advantage
Be Inspired ambassador Suzanne Harlow, group trading director at Debenhams, calls on businesses to unleash potential from within.
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NewsPower List: 'Ones to watch' list dedicated to female talent in retail
As part of Retail Week’s #BeInspired campaign, we have dedicated this year’s Power List ‘ones to watch’ to talented women in the industry.
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VideoWatch: The top trends and changes in the Retail Week Power List 2016
Watch the team behind the Retail Week Power List discuss the top trends of this year as a new chart leader is revealed.
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OpinionOpinion: We must prove what success diversity can bring
As the momentum around our Be Inspired campaign continues to build, ambassador Fiona Lambert explains why the initiative is close to her heart.
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OpinionOpinion: Take making changes in your career into your own hands
When I said I was going to start a shoe business selling only low heels, contacts and friends were not short on advice.
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NewsWomen discouraged from senior retail positions owing to lack of role models
Women are put off going for senior positions in retail because of a lack of flexible working and role models in the sector.
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OpinionOpinion: Role models are key to helping narrow the gap
Women and our representation at the top of retail organisations is a complex issue with many causes and equally as many strongly felt views.
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OpinionOpinion: Be proud of being a woman in what often seems a man’s world
I have been thinking about what it means to be a female leader in business, trying to recall times when I thought I was treated differently because of being a woman.
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NewsBe Inspired: Top names lend support to campaign for female retail leaders
A further flurry of high-profile names from across the sector have pledged their support to Retail Week’s Be Inspired campaign.
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AnalysisBe Inspired: The six Ps of gender equality in the workplace
If the retail industry is to tackle the imbalance of women leaders in boardrooms across the country then executable measures must be taken.