That thud you may have heard from Bay St. and other centres of Canadian enterprise is the sound of women hitting their heads on the invisible but ever-thickening glass ceiling.
As much as women may hammer against the glass ceiling, the number of them in top executive positions has fallen in Canada over the past year, a study finds.
That thud you may have heard from Bay Street and other centres of Canadian enterprise is the sound of women hitting their heads on the invisible but ever-thickening glass ceiling.
The top corporate offices at Canada's largest companies held even fewer women in 2007, according to a report released on Tuesday, but a leading women's executive network says the decline is no big deal.
The number of women executives at the highest levels of corporate Canada dropped from one year ago with a year-over-year decrease of 16 per cent. There are only 31 women in the top offices in Canada’s largest public companies, compared to 37 a year earlier.
Although there have not been many changes in demographics within the office and related sector but we need to take a closer look at those running the organizations, as well as the issue of work-life balance.
A noteworthy one-year increase in the number of women filling top-paid executive offices in Canada's largest publicly-traded companies underlines the need to do more when it comes to gender imbalance at the highest levels, says leading executive search firm Rosenzweig & Company.
Almost seven per cent of corporate officers listed at the 100 largest public companies in Canada are women, up from 4.6 per cent the previous year, a study has found.
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