Few women at corporate peak

A global survey on ‘Women in Business’ has found that while worldwide the proportion of women in senior management positions is 24%, in India the figure is a much lower 14%. There are 42% companies where no woman has made it to a senior management position, while 21% of all women who make it to the top find themselves in human resources. There is a high level of support (64%) for the introduction of quotas for women on executive boards, yet half the companies surveyed had no specific programme to mentor women.