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It’s pretty much agreed that a company should have more women in senior management. Disagreement appears when people start to look at strategies to get more women in those positions. Quotas, aggressive culture change, and so on have strong supporters and ardent critics.
Perhaps the results of a study by Catalyst can simplify matters for us. According to Ilene Lang, president of the non-profit, one finding was that “frms with 30 percent of women board directors in 2001 on average had 45 percent more women corporate officers by 2006, compared with ones with no female board members.”
It’s that simple. Bypass all the other strategic struggles and increase women’s representation on boards. You will then get better representation in top leadership jobs.
But turn this fact around. Doesn’t it mean that the main reason women are not in top leadership jobs now is that male decision makers are the barrier? Shocking!
Posted on: July 25, 2008 08:01 AM |
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