Increasing women’s success at work benefits business and society.
The Business in the Community has a wealth of fact sheets on gender equality. This fact was taken from the “International Women’s Day Factsheet – Women and Work”.
The Business in the Community is the UK’s largest and most influential responsible business network dedicated to building a fairer and greener world together, supported by His Majesty The King for over 40 years.
To learn more about the gender equality campaign visit Business in the Community (BITC) Diversity and Inclusion of the Responsible Business Map.
Gender equality enhances employee engagement, boosts productivity…
The commercial imperative for realising women’s potential in the workplace is clear: gender equality enhances employee engagement, boosts productivity, meets the diverse needs of customers and suppliers, and improves brand reputation. There are more women on company boards than ever before, but they still only make up 32% of FTSE 100 boards and the percentage of female executive directors in the FTSE 100 sits at just 10.9%. Check out the article here
The most common sectors of employment for women are health and social work (accounting for 21% of all jobs held by women at September 2018), wholesale and retail (14%) and education (12%). 79% of jobs in the health and social work sector and 70% of jobs in the education sector were held by women.
Is this statistic a surprise to you? Want to find out more? Have a look at the reports in the Houses of Parliament Library
Here is the report on Women and the Economy by Andrew Powell.
Women do not lack ability or ambition. Yet only 1 in 3 UK entrepreneurs is female: a gender gap equivalent to ~1.1 million missing businesses. Female-led businesses are only 44% of the size of male-led businesses on average, in terms of their contribution to the economy, and male SMEs are five times more likely to scale up to £1 million turnover than female SMEs.
The Alison Rose Review of Female Entrepreneurship was published in March 2019,
Alison Rose (born 1969) is a British banker, and chief executive (CEO) of NatWest Group since November 2019; she is the first woman to lead a major UK lender. (Wikipedia)
Irene Graham, CEO of ScaleUp Institute said “The Alison Rose Review provides a comprehensive view of the key drivers and obstacles of female entrepreneurship in the UK.”
The Rose Review is available to download here, take a look its a very interesting read.
The only country to rank a professional influence in their top five was China, listing peers/co-workers as the fifth greatest influence.
The Pandemic Made Advancement Opportunities for Women More Scant Nearly 4 in 5 C-suite professionals say the pandemic has negatively impacted women’s progress in the workplace. 76% of leaders believe that women in their organizations are juggling more professional and personal responsibilities than men. Against this backdrop, we asked survey respondents about how they were ensuring women were able to advance at work.
In 2016, to mark International Women’s Day, Egon Zehnder conceived Leaders & Daughters, a series of events that brings the world’s most admired leaders and their daughters together to uncover the motivations, challenges and opportunities that face the next generation of professional women. In 2017, in celebration of International Women’s Day, hosting Leaders & Daughters events in more than 40 cities worldwide. in 2021 the subject was “reversing the she-cessation”, reviewing the impact of the pandemic on women at work. The Leaders and Daughters surveys can be viewed https://www.egonzehnder.com/leaders-and-daughters, they make very interesting reading, dip in and have a look.
