Senior Executive Gender Diversity: Last Week's Issue?

I think not. Last week was for me anyway, marked by two events, that for very different reasons, were a reminder that the equal participation of women at executive level at work and their receipt of equal reward for their efforts, are still stubbornly difficult to achieve.

On Monday night I attended the launch of Women in Hospitality, Travel and Leisure 2020, a report into executive women in a sector in which women are less well represented at senior levels than you might expect. Sponsored by Korn Ferry and PWC (on behalf of Withers I contributed chapter 8 on the regulatory framework), the report concluded:

1. There are very few female role models, CEOs and Chairmen in the sector;