The proportion of women hired into senior leadership roles in the UK has continued to fall, leading to only a slight increase in overall female representation since 2016.

This is according to data from LinkedIn published in the World Economic Forum’s 2024 Global Gender Gap Report, which shows women represented 37.5% of hires into senior roles in 2023 and 37.1% of hires so far in 2024.

Since 2016, the overall female representation at the top ranks of business has increased by just 2.6 percentage points, to 31.3%.

WEF’s report ranked the UK 14th for gender parity out of 146 countries, taking into account economic participation, education attainment, health and survival and political empowerment. For economic participation and opportunity, the UK was ranked 58.

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