Women often outperform men on key leadership measures, particularly collaboration, relationships and crisis management, yet barriers still block their route to senior roles. David Buchanan and Steve Macaulay examine the evidence and set out what HR and L&D can do to strengthen the leadership pipeline and stop wasting valuable talent.
Recent studies have found that women make better leaders than men. This is a compelling reason, beyond equality and diversity, for appointing women to senior management positions. In this article, we explore the evidence and the practical implications for HR/L&D.
There were only eight female CEOs in FTSE 100 companies in 2021. By 2025, this had risen to nine. Hardly significant progress. In the United States, only 11% of the Fortune 500 companies have a female CEO. And of roughly 200 countries in the world, only 29 have a female head of state.
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