WOMENINBUSINESS
Beyond the Glass Ceiling …
A KENT WOMEN IN BUSINESS SPECIAL FEATURE
IT SEEMS ABSURD THAT IN 2023 THE OVER- GENERALISED NOTION THAT WOMEN ARE THE ‘ FAIRER SEX ’ - ALL GROUPED TOGETHER AND TARRED WITH A BRUSH THAT PRESUMES EMOTIONAL INSTABILITY AND A DESIRE TO ‘ KEEP HOUSE ’ – STILL LINGERS IN THE AIR LIKE A BAD SMELL . AND YET IT DOES . ESPECIALLY IN THE REALMS OF BUSINESS .
In recent years ( well , decades to be more precise ), although some steps have been made towards addressing the repeated calls for greater gender equality and the drastic need to close the gender wage gap , there is still a fundamental lack of women in leadership roles . 96 % of CEOs of Britain ' s largest public companies are men and 75 % of the members of FTSE 350 executive committees are men . There were no women at all on the executive committees of 10 % of these companies and nearly 70 % of companies have no female executive directors at all on their main boards of directors .
Nationally , it ’ s clear the progress towards gender equality in business is glacially slow and the sad truth is that brilliant women are still getting overlooked . Flipping this to a positive though , there are four more female CEOs this year compared to last year amongst those FTSE 350 companies , and when ( not if ) more women become CEOs ( which they will ) it is more likely that there will be women appointed to other roles in the upper echelons of not only those FTSE 350 companies , but across our entire society , too .
Research shows that companies with more female executives are correlated with bigger share price gains , stronger revenue growth , and higher profits . Women executives therefore are not only proving to be driven , resilient , and self-motivated , but they also drive impressive business results .
Which comes as no surprise ; women are incredibly capable , strong , powerful people , so let ’ s normalise that … Welcome to insideKENT ’ s Women in Business special feature .
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