Cash to help women rise
The food sector skills council Improve has secured £500,000 for training that helps women move up the career ladder.
The money, from the government's Women and Work programme, will help 500 women in food manufacturing to achieve a management qualification within two years. Employers will pay £40 per employee.
Improve will work with 25 food and drink firms to identify employees keen to achieve a level three management NVQ.
While there were a lot of women in product development, technical, HR and purchasing roles, factory managers, production managers and operations directors were still unusual, despite 50% of shop floor staff in most factories being female, said Improve's commercial director Paula Widdowson.
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