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The largest listed UK companies are scheduled to move a target with women at 40 percent of the top executive roles to represent female representative female representatives.
Ftse Leaders of Women’s Leaders found women consisting of 35.3 percent of senior leaders in leadership and senior 350 in Areto 350, puts businesses in this year.
While the largest UK companies is “within distance” which meets the purpose – with additional female representation in the executive rank from 24.5 percent of 2017 – the annual report of Review Tuesday.
The target “may not be reached until 2025 while some companies have not been in a third of their leadership roles held by women”, according to the report. The end of this year marked the deadline for Five years to review.
Created by companies Great progress to increase the number of women on boards. The campaign says 43.4 percent of the FTSE board of the FTSE 350 companies held by women last year, from 25 percent in 2015 and 9.5 percent of 2011.
FTSE leaders of women launched at 2021 as an heir of Hampton-Alexander and Davies reviews. With increasing targets for boards, it is given a magnified remit to look at senior executive roles.
Women make up 32.7 percent of the FTSE 100 Executive Committee resole, from 30.4 percent of 2023. But almost a third company has not crossed 33 percent threshold.
Marks and Spencer is the FTSE 100 companies with the highest number of women’s leadership team, followed by education company Pearson and stand.
Meanwhile, Group Group Group Group Fresnillo and Games Workshop Group, making a fantasy game Warhammer, which ranked groups with the lowest proportions of women in leadership roles.
“There’s a push, by many initiatives, to get to this score, and while optics look good, there are some more real challenges,” says Pavita UK, a campaign that led by chairs and chief executives to increase the difference in the board gender and senior management levels. “Women don’t have the right task to go to get the leading jobs.”
Cooper added that women in the executive committee roles often run “support” human resources than financial possession and full business divisions, leading a ” Gaud Gap “.
Report comes as headhunter Reyell Reynolds are associated with separated research on Tuesday facing female leaders “Double Bunds” If they took the highest job – being criticized because more ambitious or inadequate ambitious.
“It is true that it is a raging pattern,” said Laura Sanderson, co-head in Europe, Middle East and India in Russell Reynolds.
Report, watching over 20,000 news articles consist of nearly 750 main executives of FTSE 100, S & P 500 and Euronexters and singers, the more negative in public eye.
“Society is often expected by women in leadership positions to walk in a strap found with capability, which should show humility,” Sanderson said.
The Russell Reynolds report was found that while women represented only 11 percent of the total main executive appointments in 2024, they received more media.
Women executives have received 1.25 times more mentioned than men and 1.7 times more attention, in the number of articles, as they leave a paper. About 18 percent of stories around the abandones of CEOs are negative, while for women the number 28 percent.
