Royal Mail delivers a bit more equality

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The likely elevation of Moya Greene's newly privatised company will raise the number of female CEOs in the FTSE 100 to four

The number of women running FTSE 100 companies looks set to soar this week – although the 33% rise is coming from a pretty pathetic base.
The odds-on promotion of newly privatised Royal Mail to the blue-chip index will add the name of Canadian Moya Greene, the postal service's boss, to the three other women currently running FTSE 100 firms: Carolyn McCall at easyJet, Angela Ahrendts at Burberry and Alison Cooper at Imperial Tobacco.

Yes, it's FTSE reshuffle time, when Madame Tussauds owner Merlin Entertainments has an outside chance of getting another FTSE slot, while estate agent Foxtons looks set to join the FTSE 250. All three firms have seen their shares boom following recent flotations, although the 80% rise in the Royal Mail price dwarfs the 11% premium the market has put on Merlin stock, and the 28% rise in Foxtons' share price.

Anyway, Greene's blue-chip arrival pushes the count back towards the peak reached during the previous decade, when the FTSE 100 could boast five female bosses – although that hardly represents parity either.

Meanwhile, the elevation of the capable Canadian also fails to pass this page's favourite test of sexual equality in City recruitment: that's when a woman who's clearly incompetent can land the top job.

[Lounge Lizard]

"although the 33% rise is coming from a pretty pathetic base"
Never thought I would read the word 'pathetic' in an article about Moya. but it was the Guardian

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Anyone can look very good when it was sold so cheep even Kermit the frog could have done that without someone's hand up his arse!