Women in Business 2026: The value of visibility

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DE&I)

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.

CFO success: Inspiring change in female mid-market leadership

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DE&I)

Women holding the CFO role is nearing parity – reshaping finance leadership and potentially helping increase female representation across all senior roles.

6 min read |

Women in Business 2025: Impacting the missed generation

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DE&I)

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.

Women in tech: A pathway to gender balance in top tech roles

Diversity, equity and inclusion

Achieving gender balance in top tech roles by boosting prospects for early career women in tech, measuring turnover by gender and committing to greater transparency to attract women to the technology industry.

9 min read |

Women in leadership: a pathway to better performance

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Women’s leadership in senior positions can impact the commercial performance of mid-market businesses including profit expectations.

7 min read |

Women in business 2024: Pathways to parity

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DE&I)

2024 marks the 20th year of Women in business where we monitor and measure the proportion of women occupying senior management roles around the world.

Pathways to Parity: Strategies for success

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

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

Pathways to Parity: Leading the way

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

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

Pathways to Parity: The regional picture

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

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.

Pathways to Parity: The global picture

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

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

Pathways to Parity: Back to office, a backwards step?

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

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

Why the mid-market should push for parity

Women in business 2023

This year’s Women in Business report – The Push for Parity shows that globally, 32.4% of senior management positions are now held by women.

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