Benita Ferrero-Waldner said in Parliament on Tuesday that women should have more top jobs within the EU. "The problem, unfortunately, is that women often have to do more to climb the career ladder and sometimes they do not even try or dare to do it. They still have to break through the glass ceiling." You can read more here

An interesting article in the Observer about how women will be bearing the brunt of this recession: To the many thousands of female workers who have lost their jobs the recession may well look like a case of highly-paid men creating a mess, and low-paid women suffering the consequences. Women at work: the numbers • In the UK 53,000 women lost their jobs in the year to October 2008. The employ...

Labour's deputy leader Harriet Harman wants to use controversial new legislation to help women get top jobs in the City.

Women will lose out to men in the race for new jobs created as Britain emerges from recession, according to a government-funded report. A major shift in the battle of the sexes looms as men grab both the majority of new posts generated over the next eight years and a bigger share of jobs in previously female-dominated industries, according to the study from the Employment and Skills Commission. Th...

The European Union has been criticised for not appointing more women to the top jobs in Brussels by Neelie Kroes the competition commissioner; Margot Wallström, vice-president of the Commission,

EHRC: Women must wait 70 years for fair share of top jobs Nope, not an ounce of truth in the assertion. More than 5,400 women are “missing” from the country’s 26,000 most powerful jobs in business, the law, politics and the arts, according to a report from the Equality and Human Rights Commission. The study

According to a poll carried out last month by MORI, the majority of people believe that men are paid more than women for doing equal work. The poll found that 52% of people disagree with the statement that men and women receive the same pay for doing jobs of equal value. Overall 40% think that men and

GIVING women a lengthy period of maternity leave could mean they miss out on highflying jobs, a new study has revealed. The findings from three continents show that the more family-friendly a country tries to be, the less its women succeed in the workplace. I’ve been pointing this out to people for years. British women fare better on

Further to my earlier post about how Cameron is looking to promote women, Recess Monkey has a post about how women only occupy the lower branches of Conservative front bench politics, which you can read here Let's hope that when Miller and Greening get promoted they get some substantial jobs ...

It has been a happy Christmas for many, but for increasing numbers it has been tough - especially those who have lost or fear losing their jobs in retail. Labour’s attitude is that these are less worthy jobs, predominantly women’s jobs, so they do not matter. What else can one expect from a Government run by men