Ukraine's stuttering steps toward gender equality - Building Gender Balanced Business

• Women have long held leading management roles in Ukraine, with 38% of private business run by women, including 12% of large enterprises. However, only 2% of managers in what the UN Equal Employment Opportunity Program calls strategic industrial sectors are women.

• Viktoria Braichenko, Marketing Manager of the Encore personnel agency, told ProUA.com: “Over the last six months the number of women hired to top positions in mid-sized and large companies grew by 10%.”

• Three of the nine temporary administrators appointed recently by the national bank to monitor commercial banks are women.

• But proUA asserts that while Ukraine has since 2005 had a gender equality law, in the political sphere women have less reason to celebrate empowerment.

The ProUA column