Welcome to our #IWD2024 event in partnership with Global Institute for Women's Leadership - ANU & King's College London!
 
Julia Gillard and Christiane Amanpour discuss gender equality and Kelly Beaver MBE will share findings from our new survey on global attitudes to gender equality.
 
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Kelly Beaver MBE begins her presentation with some shocking stats from 2018
 
🟣A FTSE 100 CEO was more likely to be named Dave/David than be a woman
 
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..but shares the good news that we've crossed this threshold, and there are more women chief execs than Dave/David or Steve/Stephens!
 
But only if you combine the two…
🟣10x women
🟣3x David
🟣5x Stephen/Stefan/Steve
 
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Kelly Beaver MBE discusses the new concept of the 'glass cliff' - describing the phenomena where women leaders are more likely to be 'pushed off the edge' or released from their leadership positions, than their male counterparts
 
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Kelly Beaver MBE explains, whilst the public have no preference about whether their political leader or boss is a man or woman, experience matters.
 
The more people have experience of both male & female leaders, the less likely they are to care about their leaders' gender.
 
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Kelly Beaver MBE shares that some people think women might be better than men at managing the budget…
 
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