Women beating men to council top jobs
Published: 2009-11-12 12:29:24
Women now outnumber men in the top jobs at Derbyshire's two biggest councils, new figures show.(Sourced from here.)
More than half of the senior managers at the city and county council are female. In Derby, 53.4% of workers in the top five per cent best-paid are women, while the figure at County Hall is 55.7%.
Christine Durrant is one of the city's most senior female employees, as an assistant director in the city's regeneration department. She said: "I have always had people around me who are very supportive and I have been able to move on and get different experience."
Engineer Ms Durrant, responsible for highways and transportation, joined the authority in 1997 as principal traffic and transportation engineer, and was gradually given more responsibility, rising to head of transportation and then to assistant director level. With two young children, she knows the importance of the work-life balance, but said once she had set her mind to working full-time, she had no problems achieving it.
