Beschrijving

The "Women Matter" study aims at assessing the impact of gender diversity on companies' performance. It shows that the companies where women are most strongly represented at board or top-management level are also the companies that perform best, on both organizational and financial performance. It also offers fact-based insights into the importance for companies of fostering the development of women in the business arena, so that a greater number attain positions of high responsibility. Finally, having identified the main barriers to female representation on management bodies, this study suggests paths, based on good practices, to "reinvent the model" and increase women's participation in business as well as in top executive positions.