Call for more women in UK boardrooms

Cameron is attending the one-day Northern Future Forum Summit in Stockholm, Sweden, with prime ministers of eight other countries to see where there might be “common ground”.
The summit was established last year by Cameron who said: “Right across the north of Europe, there stretches an alliance of common interests. At a time when much of Europe is in desperate need of funding economic reform, it makes sense for us to come together for the benefit of all our economies, an avant garde for jobs and growth.”
The summit is also being attended by Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and the three Baltic nations – Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia.
Critics have described the summit as little more than a talking shop, but Cameron points out that more than half of graduates across the European Union are women and they are hugely under-represented at the top levels of business and other industries. The Nordic countries are performing well above the European average.
The summit will also look at how to get senior citizens to stay longer in the workforce, which is an increasing issue with aging populations.
Although his critics might question why he is in Sweden when there are so many pressing issues at home, including the Lords’ debate on NHS reform which featured so prominently at Prime Minister’s Questions, he believes relations with the non-eurozone group of countries are vital to Britain’s economy. – AP.