The more we talk about kindness in business, the more we'll break through the hard structures that have defined business and alienated women from getting to the top.
Mary PortasThe elephant in the room time and time again when it comes to work and promotions is maternity leave. We need to work with businesses so they work with women and make it easy and supportive for them to come back into the workplace.
Mary PortasSuccess is a balance thing, it's about work and play together, so we need to work on how we embrace that. The conversation we need to keep having is how women and businesses learn to embrace women having children.
Mary PortasI think we need to embrace feminism, we need to embrace all of the gifts women bring to the workplace.
Mary Portas