Scantily clad ladies area unit "unacceptable" at a card-playing trade conference, Britain's gambling regulator has same.

Sarah Harrison told the BBC's these days programme that some ladies engaging at the ICE whole gambling conference were sporting "little over swimsuits", whereas men wore good suits.

The chief govt of the Gambling Commission same the body could boycott future ICE Total gambling events.
It's a problem concerning smart governance, not correctness, she said.

The three-day Total gambling event, command at London's surpass centre, is a world showcase for the trade, attended by card-playing firms, technology suppliers, and casino operators.

But Ms Harrison told BBC's Radio 4's these days programme of her dismay at seeing the gender inequality, with several of the ladies on the exhibition stalls and doing promotional work told to wear revealing covering.

"The men were sporting good suits and girls were being asked to wear not far more than swimsuits. that is whole unacceptable; it isn't reflective of the fashionable economy," she said.

"This is not concerning correctness. It's concerning smart regulation and smart governance, as a result of businesses that have a additional numerous work force area unit additional probably to create higher selections. and that is crucial from a regulator's purpose of read."

She added: "Given our focus is on fairer and safer gambling, businesses that look additional like their customers area unit far more probably to be ready to place in situ the protections and therefore the safeguards that we tend to area unit extremely focussed on."

Her comments return amid outrage over the infamous Presidents Club men-only dinner and campaigns against the utilization of 'walk-on girls' at sports events.

Ms Harrison, WHO is going the Gambling Commission for a job at the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, spoke at the ICE event earlier on.

The occasion was, she same in her speech, "an chance to spotlight and challenge what's a major stain on this industry's reputation" - an absence of diversity.

She same Britain's highest paid boss was a lady - Denise Coates chief govt at card-playing firm Bet365.

"Yet from walking round the exhibition you would not grasp this," she said.

"Any future participation by the Gambling Commission in events like this can rely upon there being amendment."

Last week, the skilled Darts Corporation complete its long-standing tradition of using ladies to run with male players to the stage.

Formula One has conjointly complete 'grid girls' - the models WHO stand next to drivers before races.

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