Women in leadership

Increasingly, businesses are being evaluated on a broad set of concerns including their environmental and social impacts as well as their financial success. The representation of women in leadership positions is one of the social factors that is highly visible and easy for stakeholders to examine. The presence of women in the leadership ranks of a business can be interpreted as indicating a lack of anti-woman bias in staffing decisions and lack of inclusion of women’s perspectives in decision-making. As such, building gender diversity in the leadership ranks has become a valued objective for senior leaders of business firms who wish to demonstrate fairness and inclusiveness.