The Clogged Pipeline: Women Executives in the Medical Device Industry

U.S. women in medtech trail behind their male peers in leadership positions. U.S. women in all S&P 500 companies hold almost 45% of all professional-level jobs, and 26.5% have achieved executive/senior level management jobs. Not so in medtech. Screen Shot 2018-04-09 at 12.31.57 PM.png  More than 300 medtech executive women at the level of director or higher were sent a short 10-question online survey. Sixty-one shared their perceptions of the barriers to entry for women with careers in medical devices. These executive women reported that, at their companies, the average number of women holding positions of vice president or higher was 21%. However, a more in-depth analysis tells a very different story. When outliers are excluded (in four companies with women in more than 60% of executive positions) the average dropped to 17%. The median was 12%. Network with your fellow women in engineering at BIOMEDevice Boston, April 18–19, 2018. Use promo code "MDDI" for 20% off conference registration and free expo access.   The first version of this survey was conducted in 2015 and sent to almost 100 medtech executive women. Twenty-four women responded. In the 2018 survey, our 61 respondents came from a much broader distribution across the United States and some European countries. The respondent list originated in the Northeast of the United States in 2012, and the Massachusetts medtech hub is well-represented. In the future, our goal is to add many more respondent...
Source: MDDI - Category: Medical Devices Authors: Tags: Business Source Type: news