Click here to read Deborah's analysis of the latest Social Attitudes Survey.

Click here to listen to the podcast of Deborah's presentation of Women on the Board – the Public Perspective at the Editorial Intelligence's Comment Conference: The Gender Agenda.

"Deborah Mattinson's latest research looks at how long we are prepared to wait for gender balanced board rooms?"

"Women, said Deborah Mattinson, who was presenting some new research, make up 7.8 per cent of board places across the FTSE 250. They make up 2 per cent of executive directors of FTSE 350 companies, which is the kind of figure that might boost your sales if what you made was "multi-dependency" models of the noose. Half of the population, according to the research, thinks that businesses should "do more to get more women into senior positions", but only a few think the answer is quotas. People under the age of 24 don't, apparently, give a monkey's either way. Perhaps they think that if you want to be in business, all you need to do is audition for Dragon's Den."

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