Take a quick look at the people who rule the most moneyed public companies in Canada. Without fail, each is headed by a man. Indeed, in 2007 women filled an appalling 5.8% of the top five senior positions at the 100 largest Canadian companies…
This is more than a story about numbers. However, the numbers are significant -- impressive, even. And they make a compelling business case for why more women should occupy the executive suite in companies across the land and hold more seats around board-of-director tables.
Women in the boardroom. We've been pondering their slow climb for the last dozen or more years. They're graduating with MBAs in increasing numbers and working diligently to climb that corporate ladder.
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.
Management But most of Canada's 100 largest public companies are run by men, study finds Companies that employ women in senior management see higher rates of return on investment and increased market value compared to those that fill executive positions solely with men, studies show.
Kira Vermond dissects the latest workplace and career trends. Exit interviews help organizations understand what's driving colleagues away, pinpoint problem areas and increase retention. But few Canadian companies understand the exit interview's true value.
For all our advances, we still judge women and men differently Ernst & Young's Fiona Macfarlane has thought a lot of why so few woman hold top level positions.
Kira Vermond dissects the latest workplace and career trends. Just say "no." On the face of it, it sounds easy enough to turn down a request. But why - especially when that request is coming from the boss, a colleague or a client - can it seem so difficult? Saying yes feels good.
A study conducted by executive search firm Rosenzweig & Co. found that the number of women in top executives positions in Canada has fallen over the past year from 37 women in the highest-paying executive jobs in 2006 to just 31 in 2007.
Fewer women are holding the top executive jobs in corporate Canada than last year, according to a study by Rosenzweig & Co. The report said the number of women at the highest ranks of the 100 biggest publicly traded companies has declined to 31 women from 37 last year.
From our It Just Gets Worse and Worse Department: The number of women in top corporate jobs in Canada is down 16 per cent year-over-year, reports the executive search firm Rosenzweig & Company.
Few women in Canada are making it to the very top, shows a study released Wednesday. The already small number of women holding the top executive jobs a Canada's largest public companies shrank in the last year, according to a report by Rosenzweig & Company Inc., a corporate recruitment firm.
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.