Women in Business and Management
1 October 2017
Globally, women have become engines for economic growth. Achieving gender diversity in enterprises is of critical importance to improving business outcomes. However, women remain under represented in business, particularly at senior management levels. Women rarely attain executive management positions or serve as members of company boards. Yet, women have increasingly overtaken men in terms of tertiary education attainment. While much progress has been made, women remain underutilized despite representing a dynamic and capable pool of talent.
The Bureau for Employers’ Activities embarked on a global project to collect detailed, authoritative data and to provide a more granular perspective of women in business and management by taking into account the perspectives of small- and medium-sized enterprises. ACT/EMP has successfully leveraged the knowledge and insights of Employer and Business Membership Organizations (EBMOs) and companies to develop global, regional and national reports. Furthermore, ACT/EMP has gathered good practices and examples to promote better approaches to enhancing gender diversity in companies and EBMOs around the world.
Global publications
Women in business and management
Women in Business: How employer and business membership organizations drive gender equality
Equal pay for work of equal value
Pay transparency legislation: Implications for employers' and workers' organizations
Diversity and inclusion
Transforming enterprises through diversity and inclusion
Violence and harassment
Violence and harassment at work: a practical guide for employers
Women in business and management
Improving gender diversity in company boards (voluntary targets vs quotas)
Women in Business and Management
Sectorial snapshots
Global report
Women in Business and Management: The business case for change
Women’s Economic Empowerment: Good practices
A global snapshot: Women leaders and managers in employers’ organizations
Promoting women in business and management: A handbook for national employers' organizations
Gender diversity journey: Company good practices
Global report
Women in Business and Management: Gaining momentum
Regional or country publications
Women in business and management
Women in Business in Central America
Women in business and management: Gaining momentum in the Caribbean
Regional report
Gaining momentum in Eastern Europe and Central Asia
WIBM: Gaining momentum in Latin America and the Caribbean - Full report 2017
Women in Business and Management: gaining momentum in the Middle East and North Africa
Women in business and management
Women in business and management: Gaining momentum in Asia and the Pacific
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Regional conference
American regional conference: Women in business and management
Regional conference
Fostering female talent in the workforce: Women in business and management
International conference
Reflecting Global Change: Women in Business and Management
Improving the bottom line: Women in business and management.