Despite an improvement in our overall global ranking, Australia lags some of its closest neighbours on women in leadership.
It’s 2022 but Australian women are still being grossly overlooked for leadership roles and might be better off crossing the Tasman to advance their careers., which includes data insights from LinkedIn, shows that despite an improvement in our overall global ranking, Australia lags some of its closest neighbours on women in leadership.
“Visible leadership appointments encourage women, both inside the organisation and in the external market, to apply for leadership roles,” she adds. “A bigger applicant pool gives the organisation more opportunity to select the best talent from a gender-diverse shortlist.”through increased company compliance and advocacy, Prue Cox, LinkedIn’s director of enterprise marketing solutions, says women are still drastically outnumbered even in industries with a higher female representation.
The improved ranking on the league table largely reflects gains in the economic participation and opportunity of women and political empowerment but was also held back by a deterioration in educational attainment, and health and survival, with domestic violence numbers a key contributor. “Organisations that commit to gender-balance targets are almost three times as likely to achieve gender-balanced leadership teams,” the report said.
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