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Among the 100 in the full list, there are some groundbreaking women who have smashed through the glass ceiling to become global leaders. But the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Report 2020 found that women occupy just 25% of parliamentary positions around the world and only 21% at a ministerial level.
Industries with already high female representation still show a gender gap between the overall female representation across all roles and the representation of women in leadership. For example, women make up 62% of total workforce share in the Personal Services and Wellbeing industry, but only 45% of leadership share.
As the metric of measure for female economic empowerment moves with each generation, I am also focused on holding a stirrup so that my female peers can get a 'leg up'. The advancement of these emerging leaders presents a win-win scenario in which everyone gains, including organizations as a whole.
Across all industries, almost half of respondents – 44% – said that both unconscious bias among managers and a lack of work-life balance were significant barriers to gender diversity in the workplace. Almost as many – 39% – pointed to a lack of female role models.
In my work with the World Economic Forum’s communities of Young Global Leaders and Global Shapers, I am inspired every day by amazing women in our network: young female leaders who are driving the call for equitable and sustainable food systems, de-stigmatising mental health in developing countries, curbing the pandemic in vulnerable ...
Here we feature just some of the female leaders who've appeared on our Meet the Leader podcast. The latest report highlights that women remain underrepresented in leadership roles. The Forum's Meet the Leader podcast interviews leaders from across business and wider society uncovering nuggets on leadership and life.
Female political leaders have engaged in conflicts (such as the ex-prime minister of the UK Margaret Thatcher and the Falklands War) and have traded arms to nations outwardly repressive of women’s rights (such as Swedish arms sales to Saudi Arabia under foreign minister Margot Wallström’s “feminist foreign policy”).
Jacinda Ardern said she was stepping down as New Zealand Prime Minister on the same day a panel in Davos discussed the pathways to female leadership. It will take 155 years to reach gender parity in the Political Empowerment subindex of the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Report.
The ecosystem should celebrate female or male founders having families and discourage the narrative of the sleep-deprived, over-worked founders as the only way to success. Finally, we need more women in partner positions in VC firms to create a more balanced investment community that is attractive and welcoming to female founders too.”
The COVID-19 pandemic has set back gender parity, but research shows that in countries with female leaders, there was faster action in managing the crisis response, leading to fewer deaths. At the World Economic Forum’s virtual Davos Agenda Week back in January, some of the world’s highest-profile women leaders shared their thoughts on the ...