Blue chips not blue stockings

摘要

Sisters might be doing it for themselves when it comes to setting up their own businesses, but the boardrooms of the blue chips are still run by, and for, the boys. Have we outgrown hand-wringing articles on women in business? Absolutely not, says Blackwood Distillers founder Caroline Whitfield. "The annual, 'why aren't there more women in food manufacturing?' feature will only become patronising when the women actually start showing up there," she points out. "Right now, I don't look around and see hordes of highly successful women in the food industry, do you?"