Amanda Alexander is correct in many of her observations. I founded a consultancy, Silverhawk Partners , to help clients to access flexible talent at a senior level. There are many cultural and economic benefits in offering people flexible working opportunities. My background briefly, is that I ran a...

Strange though it is, we still grapple with the subject of barriers to women reaching the top. Last century’s commentators talked of women facing the “glass ceiling” where their ambitions for the top jobs seemed to be capped by the invisible forces of workplace culture and discrimination. Mummy track...