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Imagine a time many years from now, when the ‘settings’ at the top of organisations have been adapted to accommodate a wider range of ‘sets’, the ge nder-balanced board is unremarkable and women occupy roughly half the board seats of the average large company, year in and year out.

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  1. Sheryl Sandberg, Lean In: Women, Work and the Will to Lead ( Alfred A. Knopf, 2013 ).

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© 2015 Peninah Thomson OBE, Clare Laurent and Tom Lloyd

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Thomson, P., Laurent, C., Lloyd, T. (2015). The Pipeline Challenge. In: The Rise of the Female Executive. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-45143-9_8

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