{"id":20566,"date":"2019-11-06T11:04:20","date_gmt":"2019-11-06T11:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/strammer.com\/?p=20566"},"modified":"2019-11-06T11:04:20","modified_gmt":"2019-11-06T11:04:20","slug":"female-leadership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/strammer.com\/en\/female-leadership\/","title":{"rendered":"Female Leadership: The Future in the Workplace"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-fullwidth-1  fusion-parallax-none nonhundred-percent-fullwidth\" style=\"border-bottom-width: 0px;border-top-width: 0px;border-bottom-style: solid;border-top-style: solid;padding-bottom:20px;padding-top:20px;padding-left:;padding-right:;\"><style type=\"text\/css\" scoped=\"scoped\">.fusion-fullwidth-1 {\r\n                            padding-left: px !important;\r\n                            padding-right: px !important;\r\n                        }<\/style><div class=\"fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-title title fusion-title-center fusion-title-size-one\"><div class=\"title-sep-container title-sep-container-left\"><div class=\"title-sep sep-double sep-solid\" style=\"border-color:#5f80a0;\"><\/div><\/div><h1 class=\"title-heading-center\"><span style=\"color: #5f80a0;\">Advantages of Having Women in Leadership<\/span><\/h1><div class=\"title-sep-container title-sep-container-right\"><div class=\"title-sep sep-double sep-solid\" style=\"border-color:#5f80a0;\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Organisations recognise the importance of decreasing the\u00a0<strong>gender equality\u00a0gap<\/strong> and including more\u00a0<strong>women in leadership<\/strong>. However, we are still very far from the ideal scenario. According to IBM, only\u00a0<strong>18%<\/strong>\u00a0of working women occupy top leadership positions. Therefore, it is crucial to address this issue. Merit and recognition should not have a gender.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Companies must implement\u00a0<strong>policies<\/strong>\u00a0and work on existing ones to make them more inclusive. They need to develop the\u00a0<strong>hiring and promoting processes<\/strong> to include more women in the workforce and in powerful positions.\u00a0<strong>Sensitising<\/strong>\u00a0and educating the HR department and recruiters about this situation is crucial as they are part of the response to this issue.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Also, it is fundamental that organisations create strategies to empower women at work by, for example, developing\u00a0<strong>mentorship<\/strong>\u00a0programmes and\u00a0<strong>workshops<\/strong> to support female workers, make them feel more confident and improve their leadership skills. The Namely Diversity Report from 2018 showed that women are under-recognised by companies and men receive more promotions and pay rises than female co-workers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Men<\/strong>, being the majority in leadership positions, have an added responsibility in finding solutions to include women in C-suite positions. They have to recognise the\u00a0<strong>discrepancy<\/strong>\u00a0between men and women at work. In recent research, IBM asked men, \u201c<em>Imagine you had been born the opposite gender. Would your career have been different?<\/em>\u201d. Two-thirds of respondents said their careers would have been no different. On the other hand, and contradictorily, man workers also stated that there was discrimination against women in companies.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to a 2019 study from the International Labour Organization, Organisations that implement\u00a0<strong>gender<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>equality policies<\/strong>\u00a0are likely to have more women in management and CEO positions. Therefore, showing that corporate policies help solve these problems.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Having women in leadership is positive, not only for companies but also for the\u00a0<strong>economy<\/strong>. Gender balanced boardrooms are likely to improve business incomes by\u00a0<strong>20%<\/strong>, as reported by the International Labour Organization. Companies that promote women\u2019s leadership are more likely to<strong>\u00a0attract<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>retain top talented candidates<\/strong>. Women in leadership positions bring diverse thinking and experiences.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Another issue that needs to be addressed is the\u00a0<strong>gender pay gap<\/strong>\u00a0in the business world. Even if it\u00a0<strong>decreased<\/strong>\u00a0in recent years, according to the World Economic Forum, only in\u00a0<strong>202 years<\/strong>\u00a0women will gain the same salary as men. The equality between men and women at work will only be achieved in\u00a0<strong>108 years<\/strong>, and\u00a0it has not been reached by\u00a0<strong>any<\/strong>\u00a0country yet. As Anna-Karin Jatfors, the regional director for UN Women, said:\u00a0<strong><em>\u201cGender inequality is the reality around the world, and we\u2019re seeing that in all aspects of women\u2019s lives,\u201d.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><u>References: <\/u><\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">To See More Women in Leadership Roles, Here&rsquo;s What Needs to Happen, May 2019, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.entrepreneur.com\/article\/332577\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Entrepreneur<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li>Women, leadership, and the priority paradox, 2019, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibm.com\/downloads\/cas\/YZWEXLPG\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">IBM<\/a><\/li>\n<li>How To Increase Female Leadership In Your Company, August 2018, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/janicegassam\/2018\/08\/07\/how-to-increase-female-leadership-in-your-company\/#a6a30b4fd997\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Forbes<\/a><\/li>\n<li>It Could Take 202 Years for Women to Earn as Much as Men, December 2018, <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/5482285\/women-men-gender-pay-gap-202-years\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TIME<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":20567,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":0,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","myguten_meta_block_field":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/strammer.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/strammer.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/strammer.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strammer.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strammer.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/strammer.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strammer.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/strammer.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strammer.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strammer.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}