ITALY CAN DO BETTER
Womenomics 101 survey: Focus on Italy
- Of the top10 companies in Italy, only four companies (40%) have at least one woman on their Executive Committee. The majority (60%) have none.
- So among the 90 people at the Executive Committee level of Italy’s top 10 companies, only 5 are women (5,6%). 2 of them are in line / operational roles, 3 of them in a staff, or support, function.
- To provide a point of comparison, in the global WOMENOMICS 101 Survey 2009, 89% of American companies had at least one woman at Executive Committee level, while only 32% of European companies and 18% of Asian companies did.
- Italy is ranked 96th in the world by the World Economic Forum in its Economic Participation and Opportunity for Women index (2009).
- This survey, run globally by 20-first, has been brought to Italy in partnership with the Faculty of Economics, Department of Banking, Insurance and Capital Markets of the Sapienza Università di Roma.
- The other country focus reports that have been published to date include India, France and the Netherlands
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