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Women & Decision Making: Meeting Challenges Creating Change

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Sort Desciption: Women & Decision Making:. Meeting Challenges. Creating Change. As women around the world celebrate. International Womens Day this year the ...

Content Inside: InternatIonal Womens Day | 8 march 2006 Women & Decision Making: Meeting Challenges Creating Change As women around the world celebrate International Womens Day this year the theme of womens equal participation in decision-making provides an opportunity to assess how womens voices are being heard in boardrooms parliaments and courtrooms. Women in Business Progress in professions not matched by executive posts Womens participation in high-level economic decision- making remains low even in the developed countries despite educational advances for women in many parts of the world. According to ILO research from 2000 to 2002 womens overall share of managerial jobs ranged between only 20 and 40 per cent in 48 out of the 63 countries for which data were available. Finland Norway Denmark Estonia Greece and Swe- den have implemented quotas to increase the number of women on the boards of directors of companies to 40 per cent (for state and public limited companies in Finland and Norway and for private sector companies in the others). Even though women are increasingly well represented within professions such as law medicine and engineer- ing in developed countries their participation at the decision-making level remains low. According to the World Economic Forums Measuring the Global Gender Gap Report of 2005 a survey of graduates carried out by Yale Law Women highlighted that while there was a growing number of women attorneys (25-35 per cent) only a small number of them were partners in firms (5-15 per cent). More women than men work in lower-status jobs world- wide and fewer women than men own businesses and employ others. According to data from the UN Economic Commis- sion for Europe from 2001 even in developed countries such as the Netherlands Norway Finland and Canada women constitute less than one-third of total employers. (See: UNECE Statistical Database http://w3.unece.org/stat) Women in Politics Incremental gains in government positions Whil ...

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