Female IT exec urges positive discrimination in British boardrooms

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Cisco's Amanda Jobbins wants quotas to help meet EU target of 40 per cent women executives

Amanda Jobbins, senior executive at networking giant Cisco, has come out in support of introducing quotas to favour the appointment of more women into the boardrooms of UK companies. Jobbins' wo...

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