“Equality won’t happen on its own. That can only change if we take proactive steps to change it.”

The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has launched a new scheme to tackle the lack of women leaders.

The initiative, called ‘Our Time: Supporting Future Leaders’, the first and largest-scale programme of its kind to be adopted in the public sector, will take action to address the gender imbalance in leadership roles and bridge the gender pay gap.