Leadership: More women at the top

Third Sector, 17 May 2007

Indira Das-Gupta talks to Rachel Whale, chief executive of personnel development agency Vanilla and founder of the networking forum Third Sector Women, about her plans to bring more women into senior roles in the voluntary world.

Attend any voluntary sector conference and men are sure to be outnumbered by women - often by a substantial margin. Paradoxically, however, women in the sector are still less likely to reach chief executive level. And when they do get to the top, it is likely to be at smaller organisations. They are also...

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