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Play from 0:04[0:04] ..." strengths are good for business yet although we've gone far in the workplace. "...

Play from 0:33[0:33] ..." It also partly parallels very closely to top management positions in middle management women represent over 50% of the population so -- stops I think in the way. Between middle management top management."...

Play from 1:20[1:20] ..." sure your financial expertise. On the women's watch I'm Laurie Kirby double BBC news radio and battery"...

Play from 0:02[0:02]" It's been proven that our talents and strengths are good for business yet although we've gone far in the workplace. "

Play from 0:09[0:09]" We also know that there are still some areas in which women are really under represented. And that's and that the executed levels of management and time many many corporate boards of directors."

Play from 0:21[0:21]" That's Patricia -- and all the Simmons school of management she says women make up less than 15% of for profit boards. Just about the same percentage of women who are ensconced in the upper echelon of a company."

Play from 0:33[0:33]" It also partly parallels very closely to top management positions in middle management women represent over 50% of the population so -- stops I think in the way. Between middle management top management."

Play from 0:45[0:45]" That's something is the proverbial glass ceiling fewer women in top management ultimately means few women on large for profit boards."

Play from 0:53[0:53]" Women have not been given the opportunity until fairly recently in the last couple of decades. To achieve some of the levels of decisions that -- boards of directors recruit from."

Play from 1:04[1:04]" The study found that women who want to serve on corporate boards and companies want she suggests organizations -- women leaders from the nonprofit world. And women who are below the CEO level. For women -- start networking early and make sure your financial expertise. On the women's watch I'm Laurie Kirby double BBC news radio and battery"

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