Britain’s high 100 corporations have simply 6 feminine CEOs, examine finds

Britain’s greatest public corporations have a protracted approach to go relating to attaining gender equality in management, in keeping with a brand new report.

The federal government-backed Hampton-Alexander Overview in its latest report on gender and company management on Wednesday discovered that solely six girls held the highest CEO place throughout the 100 greatest corporations within the U.Ok.

Researchers analyzed knowledge associated to 23,000 management positions at 350 of the U.Ok.’s largest publicly-listed corporations, also called FTSE 350.

In 2016, the evaluation set voluntary targets geared toward rising the variety of girls in management positions at corporations listed on London’s FTSE 350 index. A key goal was for 33% of board members, executives and senior managers reporting on to govt committees to be girls by the tip of 2020.

In accordance with the evaluation, the mixed proportion of feminine executives and senior managers at FTSE 100 corporations — the 100 most useful companies on London’s inventory change — elevated from 27% in 2018 to 28.6% this 12 months.

Simply 23% of govt committees within the 100 greatest companies had been made up of ladies — that meant solely 262 of the FTSE 100’s 1,135 executives had been feminine.

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