We’ve been asked if we’d ever had any substantive responses to the public challenges we’ve issued to proponents of increased female representation on boards and increasing the proportion of women in senior roles more generally. No, we haven’t. The people in question are utterly shameless. We’ve awarded many of them ‘Lying Feminist of the Month’ or ‘Toady’ awards.
Here’s a small selection from the challenges we’ve made, in reverse chronological order:
Samantha Beckett Director General, Economics & Markets, Department for Business, Innovation, and Skills
Ian Symes General Manager, Right Management (UK & Ireland)
Sajid Javid MP Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills
John Timpson Chairman, Timpson Group plc
Chris Blackhurst Journalist, former editor, The Independent
Emma Ritch Executive Director of Engender, a Scottish feminist campaigning organisation
Mark Carney Governor, Bank of England
Laura Carstensen Commissioner, Equality & Human Rights Commission
Vince Cable MP Business Secretary
Professor Susan Vinnicombe Leader, Cranfield International Centre for Women Leaders
Dr Jude Browne Director of Gender Studies, Cambridge University
Debbie White, CEO of Sodexo (UK & Ireland)
Three recent posts (links below) refer to this challenge and Michel Landel, the (male) global CEO of Sodexo, a French multinational. Landel is a director of Catalyst Inc., a New York-based radical feminist organisation campaigning internationally for more women on boards.
https://c4mb.wordpress.com/2013/09/30/another-day-another-piece-of-women-on-boards-nonsense/
https://c4mb.wordpress.com/2013/09/30/a-public-challenge-to-debbie-white-ceo-sodexo-uk-ireland/
Charlotte Sweeney Reviewer of the voluntary code of conduct of executive search firms
Caroline Criado-Perez Radical feminist, winner of three J4MB ‘Lying Feminist of the Month’ awards
Dr Petra Wilton Director of Policy, Chartered Management Institute
Sir Roger Carr Chairman of Centrica, former president of the CBI, founder member of The 30% Club
Helena Morrissey CEO of Newton Investment Management, founder of The 30% Club
Professor Rita Marcella Aberdeen Business School
Ilene Lang President and CEO of Catalyst, a New York based radical feminist campaigning organisation
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