Our thanks to Sam for this. Extracts:
The 55-year-old added that she had received complaints in the past for trying to ‘rebalance’ the company away from its masculine ‘command and control’ culture…
More than 60 per cent of leadership positions at the John Lewis Partnership are filled by women, compared with 40 per cent of director posts across FTSE 350 companies.
Dame Sharon said the Waitrose leadership in particular had been ‘all male and all white’…
Baroness Morrissey, former chairman of stockbroker AJ Bell, said ‘any move away from a macho culture needs to be very subtle’ to not dissuade men from joining a firm.
‘Otherwise men might surmise quite sensibly that the environment won’t be good for their careers,’ she said.
She added: ‘Obviously this isn’t where things should be but shows when we are trying to change business culture, we need to move carefully to avoid creating the impression that only one ‘type’ of person will now succeed at the firm.’
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Justice for Men & Boys 
All the research suggests this hope will be dashed. Not because men won’t try to join the company and certainly not due to some lack of equality education at school. But simply because women in general are far more likely to act on “in group preferencing”, in other words they will always want to employ more women like them. The same research finds men don’t have this subtle put powerful tendency. In general companies and occupations that become majority female soon become almost exclusively so. The recent piece about a womens fiction prize illustrates this well it notes the rapid take over of the popular fiction publishing industry by women in the 1990s. I can see this in my industry social care, where there is actually quite a push to employ men to get male role models etc. Invariably the key criteria is whether the candidate is “nice”, which is really shorthand for “very much like me”. The industry suffers by having many “nice” women who are actually not good at the job, as a result.
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