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Survey: Male UK Board Members Don't Think Discrimination Explains Low Numbers of Women on Boards

'MIND THE GAP 5023794412' by http://www.cgpgrey.com. Licensed under CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons a recent survey of male board members conducted by the U.K. government-backed Hampton-Alexander Review
  1. "I don’t think women fit comfortably into the board environment."
  2. "There aren’t that many women with the right credentials and depth of experience to sit on the board—the issues covered are extremely complex."
  3. "Most women don’t want the hassle or pressure of sitting on a board."
  4. "Shareholders just aren’t interested in the make-up of the board, so why should we be?"
  5. "My other board colleagues wouldn’t want to appoint a woman on our board."
  6. "All the ‘good’ women have already been snapped up."
  7. "We have one woman already on the board, so we are done—it is someone else’s turn."
  8. "There aren’t any vacancies at the moment—if there were I would think about appointing a woman."
  9. "We need to build the pipeline from the bottom—there just aren’t enough senior women in this sector>"
  10. "I can’t just appoint a woman because I want to."
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