Fresh Thinking Needed to Champion Female Talent

On Wednesday, International Women ’s Day will shine a light on the crucial issue of gender-inclusivity in the workplace, under the banner of #BeBoldForChange. Such a focus is especially timely given recent research that showed how a majority of those in senior roles in top companies believe greater progress has been made towards g ender parity than reality bears out.About half of the 350 C-suite leaders from 51 countries (50% men, 50% women) across seven industries  surveyed by EY said they believed their Boards had achieved gender parity (defined as 30–40% women) or would do so in the next 10 years. The truth, however, is a very different picture.“Gender parity is 117 years away,” says the HBA’s President-elect, Kathrin Schoenborn-Sobolewski, also VP, Global Head Integrated Planning, Analytics and Partnering, at Merck KGaA. “This comes from the World Economic Forum 2015 report. Alarmingly, this has increased by 37 years since its 201 4 report. Far from closing in on gender parity, business is, in fact, going backward.”Schoenborn-Sobolewski, who has spent 25 years in the industry in various strategic and operational leadership positions in business development, commercial and R&D, is passionate about the impact of diversity and inclusion for women in business. “We need to look at this in a different way, adopt fresh thinking and continue to give a platform to this topic, allowing people to take leadership.”She points to the “enormous efforts” to adv...
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