Celebrating Women in Whitehall: Her Majesty The Queen meets Female Permanent Secretaries (UK Cabinet Office)
(World News UK)

(Source: UK Cabinet Office) The event held at The Queen`s Gallery at Buckingham Palace acknowledged that women are being appointed to the top of the Civil Service at the fastest rate in history. One in three permanent secretary positions in the past two and a half years went to women. Three years after Her Majesty became Queen, the Civil Service appointed its first ever female Permanent Secretary, Baroness Evelyn Sharp. Baroness...