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Liz on BBC Radio 4's "Thinking Allowed" discussing Melissa Fisher's book, Wall Street Women (second half of programme)

Breaking the City Mould (An interview with India Gary-Martin for the Financial Times)

Steven Pan: "I get kind of bored when things are going well" (An interview with Steven Pan, chairman of Formosa International, the luxury hotel group, for the Financial Times)

Q&A: Dr Mamphela Ramphele (A Q&A with the prominent former anti-apartheid activist and one-time managing director of the World Bank in Washington, for the Financial Times)

To boldly go where few have gone before (A large feature for both print and online versions of the Financial Times on the growth of online MBAs)

Highwater Mark (Interview with Olivia Lum, founder and chief executive of Hyflux. Global winner of the E&Y Entrepreneur of the Year Award 2012)

Reitrement will become age management (A discussion on the future of retirement for the Financial Times)

Erroll Damelin: Get rich quick from online cash (Interview with the Founder of wonga.com)

The struggle continues for more board diversity (Analysis of annual figures by country with interviews)

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Liz Bolshaw writes about entrepreneurs, business and everything that connects the two. She contributes regularly to a wide range of magazines and newspapers as well as providing content for websites, blogs and online journals.

Mind the gap: UK executive pay remains far from equal
First, the good news. The Chartered Management Institute’s yearly salary survey published on Wednesday shows that junior female executives in the UK are earning as much as their male counterparts for the first time in the survey’s 38-year history. Now, the bad news. Looking at the overall picture of 34,158 executives surveyed (including directors), men continue to be paid almost a third more than women doing the same jobs – and the gap is slightly wider than last year.
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How many world leaders are women?
In my previous blog post I quoted from the UK Equality and Human Rights Commission’s recent report bemoaning the lack of women in leading positions, including in politics. It motivated me to research just how many of today’s presidents and national leaders were female.
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Why are women losing the battle for jobs?
When the UK government announced its austerity measures, critics warned that they would affect women disproportionately. The latest unemployment figures, released last week, show that those fears may well be justified.
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The rules that keep women back – and how to break them
Executive coaching companies are keen publishers of their insights, and my bookshelf of titles on women at the top includes a good few. Usually I do not blog about them, but last week I came across one that should be read by any aspiring career woman (or man).
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Top business school sets target for female MBA students
We have not been alone in humming and hawing about the continuing disparity between the numbers of men and women undertaking MBAs internationally, but one of the world’s most highly regarded business schools has now placed a number on its aspirations to see more women succeed.
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