'Disappointingly slow': Women still not being promoted to senior levels in energy industry despite pledges

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Despite industry pledges, statistics released today show gender composition of energy industry boardrooms has changed little in the last year

A year after energy executives made a high-profile commitment to improve the gender balance at the top of the UK's leading energy companies, newly published statistics show progress to be "disappointingly...

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