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Happy International Women’s Day – but where have all the women in business gone?

Tuesday, March 08, 2011 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories: Women in business | Tags: business, entrepreneurs, statistics, research, women in business, CEO, women, IBR, success, boardroom, board, gender, management, equality, database, international business report, senior management, PHBs

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Today marks the 100th International Women’s Day but it seems there’s still much to strive for when it comes to equality in business, as new Grant Thornton figures reveal the proportion of women in senior management has fallen back to 2004 levels.

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British Library puts news from 1800 to 1900 online

Thursday, June 25, 2009 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories: Media sector | Tags: research, Protect Your Wealth, business news, database, banking collapse, financial panic, British Library, money crisis, newspapers

Want to put our current economic, business and taxation woes in context? Or might you just need some interesting business tales to tell over a client lunch? Then check out the British Library, which has put two million digitised pages from 19th-century newspapers online. For as little as £6.99 for a day pass, you can have an insightful trawl through the full texts of the business and financial news from as far back as 1800.

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