2024 marks the 20th year of Grant Thornton’s work to monitor and measure the proportion of women occupying senior management roles in mid-market companies around the world.
Grant Thornton’s International Business Report (IBR) has been casting a light on the issue of gender diversity in senior management at mid-market businesses for 19 years, exposing barriers and identifying facilitators of change. While progress on the overall number of women in senior leadership continues, this year’s research shows it is concerningly slow. On a global level, 32.4% of senior management positions in midmarket businesses are now held by women, an increase of just half a percentage point (pp) since 2022 and only 13pp since our research was first undertaken in 2004. At this rate just 34% ofsenior leadership positions will be held by women in 2025.
We have released our first sustainability alert for 2022 as the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) issues Exposure Drafts (EDs) for its first two Standards.
Grant Thornton’s Women in Business report 2022: How businesses can open the door to diverse talent
Grant Thornton Women in Business Report
Last year’s Blueprint for Action laid out the foundational pillars for getting more women into senior management around the world.
We’re taking a step forward to outline the practical steps toward increasing the number of women in senior management, across all job roles, industries and regions.
Women in Business – Beyond Policy to Progress 2018
Women in Business – Diversity Report 2018
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