Creative Scotland’s Board becomes gender-balanced

Creative Scotland has become the first public body to answer Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon’s call for all boards of directors to be gender-balanced by 2020, thanks to the appointment of four new members.

Following a recruitment exercise by the Scottish Government, the board’s new appointments – among them Professor Maggie Kinloch, Erin Forster, and Sheila Murray – make it the first public body to meet the target since the ‘Partnership for Change’ was launched by Sturgeon on 25 June. 81 public bodies have signed up to meet the gender balance requirement by 2020.

Culture Secretary Fiona Hyslop said of the appointments: “While all board appointments are of course made on merit, the Scottish Government is continually improving our processes to ensure vacancies are attractive and accessible to people from a wide range of backgrounds.

“These appointments mean Creative Scotland now has a gender balanced board, setting an example to the rest of the organisation and to all employers that we must work harder to achieve gender equality in the workplace and ensure everyone in Scotland is able to meet their full potential.”