The share of women represented on the governing bodies of companies increased to 19.7 percent worldwide in 2021 against 17 percent in 2018, but upwards in company structures, the percentage of representation is falling dramatically. Five percent of women directors. At this rate, equal representation of women and men in the top management would not be achieved until 2045 at the earliest. This follows from the Deloitte Women in Management study, which analyzes the situation in 72 countries and 10,493 companies.
The Czech Republic, with its 17.2 percent representation of women in management, lags behind both the global and European (30.7 percent) average. However, this number increased by 3.4 points in the Czech Republic compared to 2018. In neighboring Poland, for example, the proportion of women in management is 23 percent. In 2021, the Czech government adopted the Strategy for Equality of Women and Men for the years 2021 to 2030, which proposes measures necessary to achieve equality between women and men in the Czech Republic at a level comparable to other EU countries.
“The issue of gender equality has been at the forefront of the public interest for several years, and as can be seen from our current statistics, the number of women on the company’s board of directors is slowly but steadily growing,” said Diana Radl Roger, managing partner of Deloitte Czech Republic. According to her, it shows that with sufficient participation of women in the top management, there is usually a greater diversification of board members, which ultimately leads to better results for the entire company.
The study also focused on other gender aspects, such as the link between women’s management and the proportion of women in their governing bodies. The survey shows that in companies with a woman in directors, the proportion of women in company bodies is much higher (33.5 percent) than in the case of a boss being a man (19.4 percent). The average age of women in management worldwide is 57 (60 for men) and they remain on average for five years (7.6 years for men).
European countries clearly dominate among the countries with the highest representation of women in management, partly due to the quotas introduced. The ten countries with the highest proportion of women are France (43.2 percent), Norway (42.4 percent), Italy (36.6 percent), Belgium (34.9 percent), Sweden (34.7 percent), Finland ( 32.7 percent), New Zealand (31.9 percent), South Africa (31.8 percent), the United Kingdom (30.1 percent) and Denmark (29.6 percent).
The US ranked 19th with 23.9 percent. Women are the worst represented in Middle Eastern and Asian countries such as South Korea (4.3 percent), Kuwait (four percent), Saudi Arabia (1.7 percent) and Qatar (1.2 percent).
In Europe, most women hold company positions in the consumer sector (33.4 percent, financial services (32.4 percent) and manufacturing services (30.4 percent).
Source: Deloitte and CTK
