At Female BreadWinners we concentrate on two areas:

  1. Helping professional women develop political savvy, heightened visibility, stronger sense of career direction and increased overall confidence.
  2. Helping organisations to develop and retain the female employees who will lead them into a rapidly evolving marketplace.

Female Breadwinners.com is for women who earn a significant if not majority amount of the household earnings.  And the Big Secret? This is actually a large group of women and growing all the time! More women than men are graduating university,  women make up to 80% of all consumer decisions and companies now realise women in senior leadership positions bring better profitability and corporate governance as well as reflect their consumer base.

These changes will affect how professional women manage their careers,  the dynamics of their personal relationships and how the workplace retains and develops this growing number of female talent. It is our job at Female Breadwinners to help both women and employers negotiate these fast-paced changes for everyone’s benefit.

Why More Women Entrepreneurs Will Lead To Gains for Women on Boards

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The news is full of a call to action for more women on corporate boards, a move we at Female Breadwinners would wholeheartedly like to see. However, with the push for women at the top, we think politicians are missing a trick. The vast majority of people get their initial management experience within SME’s – and we think more should be done to encourage women entrepreneurs not just to start, but to grow their own businesses. According to Office for National Statistics self-employment data, women are much less likely than [...] Read more »

Fill the Pipeline and Appoint Senior Women – Why We Need Both

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I recently had a conversation with the Board of one of my corporate clients, where I was providing gender diversity consultancy to help them get more women onto the Board and in other senior roles. We have been working together for several months and the Chair asked “Is it better to take more active measures to fill our pipeline for future senior roles or do we also need to expand the Board size and create a few more senior jobs to make an instant impact?” The answer is ‘Yes’ to [...] Read more »

Gender Diverse Leadership Performs Better in a Crisis

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A recent study done on gender diversity in management by the SKEMA Business School found that ‘feminised’ management teams performed better than their all-male counterparts during financial crisis. Michel Ferrary, professor of Human Resource Management at Skema, revealed that investing in companies with management teams which consist of at least 35% women considerably improved investment performance between 2007 and 2012. While we at Female Breadwinners wouldn’t consider a management team of 35% women to be a ‘feminised’ workforce we are delighted to see more evidence that gender diversity leads to [...] Read more »

Highlighting the Usual Suspects? How does Your Firm Choose People for Awards?

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I was recently sent a great piece on the value of looking beyond the ‘usual suspects’ in the Top 100 Rising Stars of the Legal world in The Lawyer from a proactive subscriber to our Female breadwinners monthly report. When I got the article, I had just come off the phone from a corporate client who wanted to ensure we target all women in our efforts for gender balance, not just the rising stars who are readily visible. I agreed, but it seems according to this article that even getting [...] Read more »