Recruitment

Three in ten managers are women. By hiring a greater proportion of women into management roles (36% of recent management hires are female) recruitment practices are playing a key role in gradually increasing the overall share of female managers.

Comparison of female employees and women hired into management

Women
Men
New management hires by gender
36%
64%
Distribution by gender (overall)
39%
61%
Distribution by gender (management)
30%
70%

The same tendency holds for management hires. The gap between men’s and women’s hiring rates starts between 21 and 30 but is at its widest from 31 to 40.

Percentage of management hires by gender and age