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Girls on top: How Britain's female high-flyers beat the odds

This week it was revealed that the number of women in senior jobs is falling. Esther Walker asks Britain’s high-flyers how they bucked the trend.

By Esther Walker
Friday, 5 September 2008

Mary Portas: 'I think companies really ought to be a lot more flexible. They need to realise that we don't need to keep working in the same way that we've been working for the last 50 years'

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Mary Portas: 'I think companies really ought to be a lot more flexible.'

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