GCC COUNTRIES MOVE TO BOOST WOMEN REPRESENTATION ON BOARDS – BUT PROGRESS IS SLOW

Promoting women to corporate boards within the Middle East and elsewhere can directly improve profitability and change the way a company approaches its market, participants at a recent networking breakfast hosted by ACCA concurred. Entitled ‘Women in Finance: beyond the numbers’, the event was held on February 2 at the Four Seasons resort hotel in Dubai and attended by senior finance professionals and leaders from the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The gathering was further supported by Deloitte Middle East; the Manchester Business School Middle East Centre; ...


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