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Women ‘under-represented at local strategic partnership level’
Women are currently under-represented on the boards of local strategic partnerships in England, according to a new study.
Conducted by Oxfam, the Women’s Resource Centre and Urban Forum, the research shows that women currently occupy just 28 per cent of board chairs in local strategic partnerships (LSPs) and four out of five LSPs (80 per cent) are failing to monitor representation of women.
The gender gap within LSPs also means that women tend to be employed in stereotyped roles, such as administration and community representation, with almost three-quarters of LSPs (72 per cent) stating that they do not offer any specific support to women to boost participation in the not for profit sector.
Conducted to coincide with the introduction of the Gender Equality Duty in April 2007, the report on women’s representation in Local Strategic Partnerships revealed that none of the more than 60 LSPs surveyed demonstrated adequate awareness of the issues that can affect men and women differently, such as transport and economic development, and calls for better talent management in the sector.
Elin Gudnadottir, one of the authors of the report, that women were completely absent in some areas of LSP activity, such as crime reduction, with many respondents seeing the under-representation of women in LSPs as symptomatic of a wider "glass ceiling" for female workers.
Established in 1994, Urban Forum is a national voluntary umbrella group for community and voluntary organisations with interests in urban and regional policy, especially regeneration.
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