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Thank you to everyone who came to last Friday's high-octane 30% Club Boardroom Lunch! It was wonderful to see the enthusiasm with which participants engaged in simulated boardroom discussions on real life company crises. A big thank you to our sponsors, Standard Chartered and KPMG, all the corporates and professional advisory firms that hosted tables, our 100 Women to Watch, our brave facilitators and our keynote speaker, Dr Dame Rosanna Wong.
A new report released last week by McKinsey and Lean In, the organisation founded by Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg, shows that women are still struggling to advance in the workplace.
Credit Suisse’s September 2016 report The Reward for Change is both a heartening and depressing read.
Further to last week's post when we congratulated the 12 women members in the next LegCo, we have been following news reports that Regina Ip has apparently snubbed invitations to be the next LegCo President saying that handling procedural matters is not the kind of job she is interested in and she would rather focus on policy agendas. While some are speculating that her position is also motivated by her intention to run for Chief Executive, whatever the reason, we are heartened by the example of a powerful woman drawing a line in the sand for women everywhere who tend to be the ones who end up doing the “office housework”.