Gender diversity key to improving corporate performance

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Research shows that a gender-balanced workforce positively supports corporate performance in relation to company profitability, risk reduction or share price. It has been proposed that women's different sensibilities and perceptions counterbalance prevailing attitudes and "group-think" tendencies.

According to McKinsey, across the [Asia-Pacific] region, only one in five people in leadership positions is a woman.

Even in developed economies, few women are represented at a senior level. In Japan, there are no female chief executives in the top 100 public companies.

In 2016, the share of women chief executives was only 6 per cent in Australia and 5 per cent in Singapore.

Additionally, global data show that women earn 40 per cent less than men for comparable work.

Qns:

1. In your society, how far is equality for all a reality? (Cam. 2012)

2. Consider the view that some careers are better suited to one gender than the other. (Cam. 2014)