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For 21 years, the Women in Business report has tracked the proportion of women in senior roles in the mid-market. Progress has been made but with gender equity over 25 years away, that isn’t soon enough.

Businesses have started to put guidelines and incentives in place, focused on driving employees back to the office.

The most successful strategy to achieve parity of women in senior management is one which stands alone, independent of an ESG strategy.

To push towards parity of senior management roles held by women, who leads within an organisation is vital.

We saw an increase in the percentage of senior management roles held by women, on a global level, but there are some significant regional and country variations.

Without a greater focus on the issue, women’s parity in senior management won’t be reached until 2053 at the current rate.

Mid-market business leaders plan to increase investment over the next 12 months, specifically in technology, research and development and staff.

As mid-markets concerns about a possible global recession have receded, leaders’ expectations for increases in their profits are at an all-time high.

Progress on the overall number of women in senior leadership continues, but it’s concerningly slow.

The Spanish middle market shows its concern about the evolution of inflation.

Welcome to the 18th round of our annual research on the position of women in senior management across the world, and the progress towards gender parity in leadership.

Our research revealed five key trends that resonated with Technology, Media and Telecoms (TMT) industry leaders around the world. We asked a panel of our experts from UK, US, India Ireland and Germany, to give us their reaction to the findings.

For 17 years, Grant Thornton has been tracking the global progress of women in senior management. In the last 12 months, unprecedented events have had an unforeseen and unparalleled impact on that progress.

As uncertainty in the global economy increases, EMEA’s mid-market becomes more international in its outlook.

Uncertainty remains but optimism improves in the North American mid-market.

Uncertainty remains but optimism improves in the North American mid-market.