At the top of the Bloomberg Tower in Manhattan, in a crowded room overlooking Central Park, Helena Morrissey said something she has said many times before: “We need more women in leadership roles.”
The message is one she has repeated frequently since launching the UK’s 30% Club, which seeks to raise the proportion of board directors who are women to at least 30 per cent by 2015. This time, however, Ms Morrissey had a new audience in a new country – the US.
“This is a business issue, not a women’s issue,” she told the crowd of mostly women, gathered to launch a US 30% Club. “It’s about trying to make a different business culture where more people can thrive. It’s an economic imperative.”