Green ceiling: New analysis reveals women are still under-represented in top energy and climate jobs

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Big business, including leading sustainable and clean tech firms, continue to fail to promote women – to their own detriment

For decades the 'glass ceiling' has barred women from top positions in leading companies, thwarting career ambitions, embedding discrimination, and ultimately harming the economy in the process. It had...

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