Best EU Possibilities for Women Are in Latvia - Building Gender Balanced Business

• Latvia is the European country with the least sense of a glass ceiling as well as the highest proportion of women managers in the EU, a UK academic reports in describing the Baltic country as the best place in Europe for a woman to get ahead.

• With 41% of the country’s managers being women — well ahead of such usual suspects for reduced inequality as the Nordics and 6 percentage points ahead of the UK — Latvia has long had one of the most equitably integrated work forces.

• But in many other countries, women may work and even get halfway up the corporate ladder, but there it stops — and that is the consensus view. Whether that merely reflects the reality or actually feeds into it, the sense of a glass ceiling pervades workplaces … except, apparently, in Latvia.

• The Buckinghamshire New University School of Business & Management academic Gloria Moss’s interviews found no sense among many of her respondents that women are limited in terms of advancement.

• “Having spoken to many female executives in Latvia the consensus was that there were no barriers to success in the workplace, Moss told The Times of London. “This is not always the case in the UK and other developed EU countries, where women face a multitude of challenges from male counterparts.”

The Times report