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Gender representation in the FTSE

Latest Figures show that there are now 163 women in executive positions in the FTSE 100 and 189 in the FTSE 250.  While this does represent an increase on 2010 figures (an additional 25 women being added to the FTSE 100 director posititions) representation remains poor – Only 15% of directorships in the FTSE 100 are female, and this figure drops to 4.6% of executive directorships of the FTSE 250.  

 

What’s of further interest is that you can pretty much forget any hope that the (very gradual) feminisation of business will herald in a new age of ethical business practices – There are some real ‘corporate clangers’ in the top 17 list of FTSE companies with female representation.

Top 17 FTSE companies with female representation on the board (2012)

 

Imperal Tobacco and BAE systems really stand out – It seems there are plenty of women out there just as willing as men to run companies that make their money out of encouraging weak minded, poor, low-status, and/ or ignorant people to shove a cancer sticks down their throats and plenty of even ‘harder women’ happy with making their bonuses out of selling even more storm shadow missiles to governments so they can kill relatively powerless people who might dare do things such as try to put their interests before those of Western Corporations.

Source of the TablesThe Female FTSE Board Report 2012 – Cranfield University School of Management

Related Links

Useful comments on methology here!

Broader knowledge on women in the labour force (UK) here (2010)

The Joy of teen sex

If you're not shaggin' around by the time yer 16 and sharing the news on Facebook - you're a sexual frea
If you're not shaggin' around by the time yer 16 and sharing the news on Facebook - you're a sexual freak

So this is it – normal sexuality now involves a  size 16 30 year old bleached blonde ‘sexpert’  showing off her trunk load of dildos and advising an 18 year old with a prince albert on which of them he should shove up his ass.

Or at least that’s the impression you’d get if you witnessed this  piece of totally unrepresentative hyperreality that sticks to an age old media formula – find a few extreme cases – a couple of slappers, a young, outed gay virgin, and a few people with pierced genitals – all teens of course – and then get them to talk with a bunch of youthful 30 something sexperts who are ‘down with the kids’.

I just wonder if this kind of programme doesn’t just encourage the idea that if ‘I’m not  a bit of a sexual deviant then I’m just  not normal.’ – and these 30 something sexperts kind of give you the impression that if you haven’t accumulated a certain check list of sexual experiences (no need to go into details) by the time your their age then you’re a bit of a loser.

The author of this post says – ‘it’s making me feel old and unworldly’ – but not me –  I know it’s hyperreal and just about entertainment – but this show might  just make those people who don’t lead really exciting, adventurous sex lives, which many people simply don’t, feel even more like losers, when in fact they’re probably more ‘normal’ than any of the sex- obsessives appearing on this programme.

FYI – the Kinsey Institute actually looks at sex and sexuality in a more balanced way – but it’s just not quite as interesting as this show.

Now I wonder if I tag this post ‘teen’ and ‘sex’ I’ll get thousands of hits – possibly not because it’ll be lost in the sea of thousands of other posts with the same tags.