Indeed, we are in the late stages of a power transfer (however agonizingly slow it feels to us) and we’re experiencing a collision of sensibilities as more women, more confidently, speak out and move into leadership positions. We’re feeling heightened friction because of our progress. The good news, because there is some, requires a big step back. We are trying to change the very understanding of what it means to have power-who should have it, what the point of it is, and how to use it. No, we are doing something far more disruptive. We are up against centuries of entrenched privilege, but it’s not just that we’re trying to take something men have always had, which would be a struggle in itself-nobody likes to lose. We’ve brushed off inappropriate and unwelcome invitations from superiors we’ve sat through questionable, cringe-worthy talks with other senior journalists. We’ve experienced, as younger women, the sort of treatment that would certainly shock us now: we’ve been told to stop being so emotional, to calm down, to change our hair, our clothes, our wrinkles, our voices, our style-basically ourselves. Yet we’ve still struggled to fit ourselves into prescribed male molds in order to progress in our professional lives. We’ve both been part of the power hierarchy in a multitude of ways over the years. We need respect and compensation for the power we already have and wield in the world, including the kind that hasn’t been historically seen as power at all. And summoning power-calling out what we need to make our version work instead of folding ourselves into an unfit system-is the next frontier. Initially driven by our own struggle to balance home and work, kids and career, we started to write about workplaces, focusing on changes needed to make them work for women.Īt every rung of our rise, women have stalled. The FLA Lending Code can be found at have spent the past decade and a half reporting on and writing about women and work, women and work-life balance, women and confidence, girls and confidence-all critical to the power equation. Together Personal Finance Limited is a member of the FLA. FCA number is 724450.Īuction Finance Limited | Registered in England and Wales - Company Registration Number 04949929īridging Finance Limited | Registered in England and Wales - Company Registration Number 03166982īlemain Finance Limited is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority | Registered in England and Wales - Company Registration Number 01185052. SPOT is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) | Registered in England and Wales - Company Registration Number 01998543. SPOT Finance Ltd trades under 2 trading names Spot Finance Limited (Registered) and Together (trading). Together Commercial Finance Limited | Registered in England and Wales - Company Registration Number 02058813 Together Personal Finance Limited is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) | Registered in England and Wales - Company Registration Number 02613335. Together Financial Services Limited is the operator of this website. Together Financial Services Limited | Registered in England and Wales - Company Registration Number 02939389. Together is a trading style of each of the undernoted companies, which have their registered office address at Lake View, Lakeside, Cheadle, Cheshire SK8 3GW. Whilst we have made some good progress this year seeing a 5% increase in the last 12 months in representation, we believe we are not on track to meet our charter target of 33% by our deadline of the end of December 2022. As of 13 September 2022 we have 31% female representation in senior management. When we signed up to the charter on 24 September 2021 we had 26% female representation in senior management. As part of our commitment we nominated 5 leads for each of the 5 strands. Our 5 key focuses are around women in leadership, disability, under-represented ethnic groups, 55 plus and togetherness groups. Our focus on Women in Finance is one strand out of five strands which sit within our overall D&I strategy that was launched to the business in December 2021. Pete Ball, Chief Executive of Personal Finance is the senior executive accountable for gender diversity at Together. Together is proud to be a signatory of the Women in Finance Charter. The Women in Finance charter is a pledge for gender balance across financial services and is part of Together’s overall Diversity and Inclusion strategy.
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