Our 2026 Women in Business report explores the mid-market’s commitment to DE&I and gender diversity in leadership and the impact this has on business success.
Mid-market firms are scaling sustainability for growth, not just compliance. Grant Thornton’s International Business Report (IBR) 2025 report reveals how sustainability investments are driving profitability, resilience and global expansion — despite regulatory shifts and political uncertainty.
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.
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.
In times of uncertainty businesses often turn to a trusted confidant, who can diagnose their problems and recommend a course of action to thrive. It is perhaps therefore no surprise that when many sectors are starting to look off colour, the professional services sector is in relatively good health. In this article, we explore the vital signs for the Professional services sector and explore their outlook.
Grant Thornton is pleased to launch our annual Women in business 2018 report: beyond policy to progress on International Women's Day. The research focuses on the landscape of business and government policy and explore the drivers of what creates change in gender diversity in business leadership across the world.
I read a fascinating article in the Wall Street Journal the other day which suggested that my region could broadly be thought of as two separate entities.