The industries where women’s representation has points), Infrastructure (+1.16 percentage points), been trending markedly upward since 2016 (albeit Consumer Services (+1.1 percentage points), dipping at the beginning of 2023) are: Government Professional Services (+0.95 percentage points) and Public Sector (+1.8 percentage points in 2022 and Technology, Information and Media (+0.94 compared to 2016), Agriculture (+1.24 percentage percentage points). 2.3 Representation of women in senior leadership LinkedIn data indicates that the share of women Industries with the greatest discrepancy between in senior leadership positions – where “senior women’s share in senior contributor roles and leadership” is de昀椀ned as Director,13 Vice-President that in either Director or higher-ranked roles (VP 14 15 (VP) or C-suite – is at 32.2% in 2023 nearly or C-suite) are Real Estate (-12.9 percentage 10 percentage points lower than women’s points), Administrative and Support Services overall 2023 workforce representation of 41.9%. (-11.7 percentage points), Entertainment Providers Women continue to be outnumbered by men in (-10.9 percentage points) and Healthcare and Care senior leadership positions across all industries, Services (-10 percentage points). The 昀椀elds with especially so in 昀椀elds like Manufacturing (24.6% a better retention of women and thus less abrupt women); Agriculture (23.3%); Supply Chain and drops in women’s share in senior contributor Transportation (23.0%); Oil, Gas and Mining versus senior leader roles are Education (-1.3 (18.6%); and Infrastructure (16.1%). percentage points) and Consumer Services (-1.4 percentage points). The sectors where gender diversity in senior leadership is more present, with women taking Despite a signi昀椀cant drop in gender diversity from up between one-third and one-half of senior more junior to more senior levels, Healthcare and leadership roles, are: Healthcare and Care Services Care Services is the only industry where women (49.5%), Education (46.0%), Consumer Services surpass men in either Manager (60.7%) or Director (45.9%), Government and Public Sector (40.3%), (53.8%) positions, while also displaying the highest Retail (38.5%), Entertainment Providers (37.1%), share of women in either VP (46.8%) or C-suite Administrative and Support Services (34.7%), and (39.8%) roles. The next-best industries for female Accommodation and Food (33.5%). senior leaders are Consumer Services (e.g. 49.9% of Director positions, 46.3% of VP roles and 38.4% of C-suite roles are held by women) and Education Organizational hierarchy levels (e.g. 49.3% of Director positions, 41.4% of VP roles and 38.6% of C-suite roles are held by women). When further disaggregating the data by seniority levels, it becomes apparent that different industries Senior leadership display different intensities and patterns when it comes to the “drop to the top” – the degree to which female representation drops as seniority level Despite the overall “drop to the top”, women have increases. This is illustrated in Figure 2.7. increased their representation in senior leadership since 2016 across all industries. The sectors that Representation drops to 25% in C-suite positions made gains in women taking up Director roles, for on average, which is just more than half of the instance, are Technology, Information and Media representation in entry-level positions, at 46%. (an increase of 2.4 percentage points from 30.8% in Women fare relatively better in industries such as 2016 to 33.2% in 2022), Professional Services (+2.1 Consumer Services, Retail, and Education, which percentage points) and Government and Public register ratios of C-suite vs entry level representation Sector (+2 percentage points). Slower progression between 64% and 68%, as shown in Table 2.1. over time is noticed in the 昀椀eld of Entertainment Construction, Financial Services and Real Estate, Providers (+0.4 percentage points) and in Healthcare on the other hand, present the toughest conditions and Care Services (+0.5 percentage points). for aspiring female leaders, with a ratio of C-suite to entry-level representation of less than 50%. The latter, however, displays one of the more marked improvements of women’s representation in On average, across industries, a signi昀椀cant gap is VP roles, with an increase of 1.6 percentage points seen when comparing the share of women in senior between 2016-2022, alongside even more notable contributor positions (44.0%) to that of women in progress in Technology, Information and Media as Manager (35.5%) or Director roles (36.8%). The well as Professional Services (both registering a disproportionate share of men holding top positions rise of 1.9 percentage points). Women’s ranks in is even starker among higher-ranked positions, VP positions have not increased as quickly in either where men account for 71.7% of Vice-President (VP) Accommodation and Food (+0.4 percentage points) roles and 74.6% of C-suite positions on average. or Administrative and Support Services (+0.3 percentage points). Global Gender Gap Report 2023 38