The World Economic Forum (WEF) has been saying some profound stuff on the subject of talented females failing to break into senior management roles or onto company boards.
Its recently released Corporate Gender Gap report was the result of surveying 600 human resources professionals across 16 industries in 20 countries.
The US has the highest percentage of female employees at 52% followed closely by Spain then Canada, while India is dragging its heels at only 23%. Shame on you India. This suggests that not many organisations are fully committed to gender equality. The average number of women achieving CEO level across the 600 companies was less than 5%.
Legislation in Norway now ensures 40% of a public company board is female. A major step forward. How many other countries would be game to follow suit? Would male-dominated boards and senior management have something to say on the subject I wonder?
Tony Heywood is a Fellow of the Design Institute of Australia, founder of Heywood Innovation in Sydney Australia with affiliates in Melbourne, Gold Coast, London, Singapore and Mumbai.
tony@heywood.com.au
www.heywood.com.au
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Tony
interesting post, I read it with interest. In fact I went ahead and looked up your firm and lo and behold I found that you are the founder (and maybe even majority owner) of a company with 5 Principals, out of which 4 are male and only 1 female. I look through their profiles and find that the only talented female that you have found to be a Principal in your firm turns out to be your wife.
I am sure that you must be all vocal about gender equality, but buddy remember the old saw, "actions speaks louder than words."
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