Proportion Of Women In Board Roles Increasing, UK Study Suggest

The proportion of women in board roles in the United Kingdom’s biggest firms has risen above the average to a 40% for the first time, as per the analysis. It also concludes that only 10 of all the UK based 350 largest listed companies have all-men executive teams.

Uk Report On Women In Leadership

The involvement of women on FTSE 350 public firm boards has been gradually enhancing in the past few years with demands from stakeholders for diversity in the people running businesses in the United Kingdom. At the level of the board, the imbalance in the proportion of male and female leaders improved.

Every one of the 350 boards now has at least one or two women on it, which can be compared with the 152 only-male member boards just about a few years back, as per the recent women leaders review by the data company BoardEx. The United Kingdom is in the second position in the world right behind France, the government has said.

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Stats On Women In Leadership

18% of All Indian Start-Ups Are Led By Women

A recent study on tech startups in India has concluded to the fact that 18% of all start-ups are led by at least one woman founder or co-founder. According to the report by the National Association of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM) in collaboration with Zinnov, it got revealed that 25,000 to 27,000 start-ups were produced in the last decade. The report also concluded that between the years 2019 and 2022, 17% of all the investment deals in India were raised by start-ups that were led by women. The data pointed toward the rise of women leaders in the start-up ecosystem of India.

Women-led start-ups in UK received 1.9% of total capital funds in 2022.

In the year 2022, All startups from the US with all-women teams received just as little as 1.9% which is about $4.5 billion out of the $238.3 billion in venture capital funds allocated for the year, according to the latest PitchBook data records.

The ironic fact is that all-women teams raised 1.9% of Venture Capital funds but, the percentage skyrocketed to about 17.2% when the team included both men and women in it. As per the founder of fintech Guava “Changing those numbers will require a lot of reflective work to get past unconscious biases, considering ‘nontraditional’ backgrounds and places, and frankly being more open.”

Women lost more jobs in pandemic but also made a faster comeback

According to the post analysed data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) was conducted to calculate the change in prime-age men and women’s labour-force participation rate since February 2020. Women bore the brunt of the early pandemic loss of jobs but are making their comeback and rushing back to the labour of the workforce at a higher rate than their male counterparts. As compared to the pandemic low point in April 2020, women’s labour force participation rates were up by 3.4% points, while for men it’s just 2.1% points.