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9 May 19
Ensuring a diverse workforce will improve public financial management and foster creativity, writes Gillian Fawcett of Public Finance by Women
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15 Mar 19
Local government services most likely to suffer from reductions in central government funding are mainly used by women, the director of the Women’s Budget Group Mary-Ann Stephenson says.
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8 Mar 19
Now is the time to improve women's standing in the world of public finance, say Gillian Fawcett and Barbara Grunewald.
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25 Jan 19
The government has drafted what it is calling a landmark bill to support victims of domestic abuse, which is costing £66bn every year in England and Wales.
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28 Nov 18
It’s a political choice that a fifth of our population live in poverty, says Mary-Ann Stephenson, director of the Women’s Budget Group. It is time for the government to acknowledge its mistakes and...
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6 Nov 18
Women in senior leadership positions can positively affect organisational performance. Mechanisms are needed to help them get there, argues Sheila Ellwood of the University of Bristol.
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24 Oct 18
There is still a lack of women in public administration, which can affect policy outcomes, says Portsmouth University professor Karen Johnston.
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10 Sep 18
The proportion of women elected to local government in England went up just three percentage points between the elections in 2014 and 2018, analysis released today has revealed.
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7 Aug 18
The number of female accountants in Ireland has gone up by 9% in the last ten years, figures from an independent regulator has revealed.
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14 Jun 18
Some current tax systems across the world – including the UK’s - are “irresponsible” and are doing nothing to improve gender equality, a parliamentary panel has warned.
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4 May 18
Analysis of gender pay gaps by CIPFA shows hourly income rates in all types of local authorities are higher for men than women. Reporting by Vivienne Russell.
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23 Aug 17
Liverpool’s deputy mayor Ann O’Byrne offers some practical suggestions about what can be done to improve women’s representation in local government
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13 Jun 16
Almost one in four board directors of UK financial services firms are women, although only one in seven executive committee members are female, research has revealed.
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18 May 16
Fewer than half of women working in NHS finance think promotion processes are fair and based on merit, according to Future-Focused Finance.
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17 May 16
The public sector has a duty to ensure equality, yet few women and people from ethnic minority backgrounds are reaching the upper echelons of public finance. What can be done to change this?
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28 Apr 16
Reshaping service provision from the perspective of vulnerable women can not only improve outcomes, it can also dramatically cut long-term costs
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8 Apr 16
Finance firms have been invited to sign up to the Treasury’s Women In Finance charter, published today.
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3 Jul 14
Public Finance talks to EY’s Uschi Schreiber at the CIPFA Conference about emerging global trends, how the public sector can respond and the role of women in public finance