BBC World News – Returners – live broadcast link

February 2018 marks the 100th anniversary of the Representation of the People Act 1918, which enabled some women over the age of 30 to vote for the first time. 2018 will celebrate this key step in the process towards female emancipation and universal suffrage with a full year of events across the country.

2018 also marks the arrival of Gender Pay Gap Reporting for Companies with over 250 staff. So, 100 years on there is still much work to do to ensure that women and men are treated equally in the workplace.

“With Brexit looming (and a potential associated lack of skilled workers), Gender Pay Gap Reporting forcing UK corporates to share their gender imbalances in a matter of weeks and the lowest unemployment in decades – returnships are in the spotlight and even supported by government policy.” Fordham, Executive Director Marketing & Talent, Golin

It is very timely that at our returners programme Back2businessship, now in its fifth year, we were able to welcome the BBC World Service Daily Business journalists to our speed dating event at the end of the 2017 back2businessship programme in November.

A 20 minute piece was broadcast last week on the wider subject of returning women in the workplace across the globe and our speed dating event was featured for the first 10 minutes. You can listen to the podcast here.

We still need placements for the delegates from the 2017 programme – please let us know when you can host one of them. For further details please email Back2businessship@f1recruitment.com

“If the industry has trained talent, and lost it, then surely the industry as a whole should be collaborating to get that talent back” Amanda Fone, CEO f1 Recruitment and co-founder of Back2businessship.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3csw8gc#play