Australia Is Still 50 Years Away from Gender Parity at the Top
Saadia Zahidi, a managing director the World Economic Forum, at the CEW summit in Melbourne.
Photographer: Carla Gottgens/BloombergHi, it’s Nabila here, an equality editor coming to you from Melbourne today with the latest data on women in leadership at Australia’s biggest companies. But first…
While women are still massively underrepresented at the top of Australia’s biggest companies, progress has been happening—albeit slowly. Some 26 of the biggest 300 firms are now led by women, which is eight more than a year ago. And each of the country’s top 100 companies has at least one woman in its executive leadership team, according to new data from leadership advocacy group Chief Executive Women.