{"id":15914,"date":"2012-10-26T20:08:13","date_gmt":"2012-10-26T18:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/10\/anglos-outgoing-ceo-warns-against-token-women\/"},"modified":"2012-10-26T20:08:13","modified_gmt":"2012-10-26T18:08:13","slug":"anglos-outgoing-ceo-warns-against-token-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/anglos-outgoing-ceo-warns-against-token-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Anglo&#8217;s outgoing CEO warns against &quot;token women&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Carroll exit leaves two female CEOs in FTSE 100<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* EU pushing for quotas on female executives<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Women make up 3.2 percent of executives at EU-listed firms<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Natalie Huet<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>LONDON, Oct 26 (Reuters) &#8211; Mining giant Anglo American&#8217;s<br \/>\n outgoing chief executive Cynthia Carroll, only the third<br \/>\nwoman to take the helm of a FTSE 100 company, warned on Friday<br \/>\nthat calls for quotas to diversify Europe&#8217;s boardrooms could<br \/>\nreduce women to a token presence.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Carroll, 55, quit after more than five years at the top of<br \/>\nAnglo, one of the world&#8217;s largest mining groups, under increased<br \/>\npressure from shareholders over underperforming shares and<br \/>\nunhappiness in some quarters over the company&#8217;s continued<br \/>\ndependence on troubled South Africa.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Her departure on Friday comes less than a month after<br \/>\nMarjorie Scardino, the first woman to lead a FTSE 100 company,<br \/>\nstepped down at publishing group Pearson.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>With Carroll&#8217;s exit sometime in the new year, that will<br \/>\nleave only two female chief executives among Britain&#8217;s blue chip<br \/>\ncompanies &#8211; as the country resists a push from the European<br \/>\nUnion for quotas to boost women in business.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think there is a need to have more women running<br \/>\ncompanies, but you can&#8217;t appoint women just to appoint women, to<br \/>\nsatisfy a particular condition,&#8221; Carroll told reporters.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Carroll exit leaves two female CEOs in FTSE 100 * EU pushing for quotas on female executives * Women make up 3.2 percent of executives at EU-listed firms By Natalie Huet LONDON, Oct 26 (Reuters) &#8211; Mining giant Anglo American&#8217;s outgoing chief executive Cynthia Carroll, only the third woman to take the helm of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-15914","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15914\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}