A homogenous new Cabinet in the UK - Building Gender Balanced Business

• The coalition Cabinet put together by David Cameron and Nick Clegg after the United Kingdom’s general election holds four women and nineteen men.

• There is Theresa May, at the Home Office; Caroline Spelman at Environment; Chryl Gillan, Welsh Secretary and Baroness Warsi, the Conservative Party chairman.

• Twenty-two of the twenty-three Cabinet members are white and sixteen of them went to Oxbridge.

• This situation is specific to England.
• Women constitute approximately half of Norway’s and Sweden’s cabinets.
• In Germany, there are six women in a sixteen person cabinet.
• In Austria, women represent six of the thirteen top ministers.
• In Switzerland, there are three women and four men in the Cabinet.

• In the UK, the number of women in the Cabinet has actually decreased. Tony Blair’s Cabinet had six and Brown’s had five.

• Cameron has made efforts to transform his Conservative party into a more modern and tolerant one but this is not reflected by the country’s new political leadership team.

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