Gender gap in leadership ‘should set alarm bells ringing’: WEF
Less than 30% of women reach senior leadership positions.
The pace of progress towards gender parity is accelerating again after a pandemic dip, but full parity remains 123 years away, according to new data released by the World Economic Forum (WEF).
Globally, the gender gap has now closed to 68.8% after the strongest year since the COVID-19 pandemic (+0.3 percentage points). But while women increasingly outperform men in higher education, less than 30% reach senior leadership positions – evidence that the world’s glass ceiling remains extremely hard to break.
