The World Economic Forum’s 2010 Corporate Gender Gap Report: the gender-balance is still a myth.

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Shared by Benja Stig Fagerland, CEO of TalentTuning™, originally published at World Economic Forum.

The World Economic Forum has published its 2010 Corporate Gender Gap Report. It is the result of a survey analyzing 600 leading companies across 16 industries in 20 countries from the point of view of women’s participation in business and companies’ policies towards gender equality policies.

According to Zahidi Saadia, one of the authors of the report and head of the Forum’s Women Leaders and Gender Parity Programme:

“The findings of The Corporate Gender Gap Report are an alarm bell …that the corporate world is not doing enough to achieve gender equality. While a certain set of companies in Scandinavia, the US and the UK are indeed leaders in integrating women, the idea that most corporations have become gender-balanced or women-friendly is still a myth. With this study, we are giving businesses a one-stop guide on what they need to do to close the corporate gender gap.”

The report is definitely worth reading, it is an eye-opener for the real condition of gender equality goals in the real business life – globally. Original link: weforum.org.