What it takes to reach the top

Evidence suggests that women make businesses better ? but why are there so few of them at the top? We hear from four company bossesCan tracking your workforce's menstruation cycles improve productivity? Sam Roddick is using the largely female workforce of her luxury sex shops to find out. There's even a plan for a "festival of menstruation", she told a slightly startled audience at a Guardian event last night."It's the greatest taboo and I want to tackle it," said the founder of Coco de Mer. "My instinct is that it will improve our work rate."Gail Rebuck, one of four business leaders to talk about gender and business to about 100 ticketholders, has no intention of copying Roddick's menstrual experiment at publishers Random House Group and the reaction from the audience and colleagues

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