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According to the government campaign to increase female representation, by 2025, the missing goal is that women up to 40 percent of the highest executive roles by 2025 miss the women to miss 40 percent of the best executive roles by 2025.
FTSE Women Leaders Review found that women accounted for 35.3 % of leadership roles – defined as those in the Executive Committee and managers immediately below this level – across the FTSE 350 in 2024, which missed 40 percent this year.
While the largest United Society in the UK They have been “at a striking distance” since the goal – increased representation of women in executive positions from 24.5 % in 2017 – the pace of change has been “slowed down”, the annual report report on Tuesday.
The goal “does not have to be achieved until 2025, because some companies, according to the report, have less than a third of their leaders' roles.” The end of this year means a term for Five -year review.
Companies have created better progress about an increase in the number of women on the boards. The campaign said 43.4 % of the FTSE 350 roles were detained by women last year 25 % in 2015 And only 9.5 % in 2011.
FTSE Women Leaders Review was launched in 2021 as successor Hampton-Alexander and Davies review. Along with the growing goals for advice, the increasing occurrence was given to look at higher powerful roles.
Women make up 32.7 % of the roles of the FTSE 100 Executive Committee, from 30.4 % in 2023. However, almost a third of companies must exceed the threshold of 33 %.
Marks and Spencer It was FTSE 100 with the highest number of women in its team leader, followed by the educational company Pearson and the retail other.
Meanwhile, the Fresnillo and the Games Workshop Group, which makes the Warhammer gaming game, ranked as groups with the lowest part of women in leading roles.
“Through many initiatives, there was pressure to get this brand, and while the optics look good, there are still some real challenges,” said Pavita Cooper, chairwoman of the 30% club of UK, the campaign led by the Chair and Chief Managers to increase gender diversity to level of the board of directors and higher management. “Women are not in the right roles to get the best job.”
Cooper added that women in the roles of the Executive Committee often operated “supportive” functions such as compliance and human resources rather than ownership and entire business divisions, which led to a “gap”.
Report comes as headhunter Russell Reynolds Associates independently published research on Tuesday that shows that female leader is facing “Double Binds” When they take the highest work – they were criticized for being too ambitious or not ambitious enough.
“It's really a glaring double standard,” said Laura Sanderson, co-head of Europe, the Middle East and India in Russell Reynolds.
A report that focused on more than 20,000 intelligence articles concerning nearly 750 executives at FTSE 100, S&P 500 and Euronext 100 and includes commentary by analysts, shareholders and politicians, claiming that women are negatively perceived in public eye .
“Society often expects women in the leadership of the rope between the nature of the nature to be competent, which requires the manifestation of ambitions, and sympathetic, which often requires a reduction in ambitions,” Sanderson said.
The Russell Reynolds report found that while women in 2024 were only 11 percent of the overall general appointment and 6 % of the departures of CEOs in the world's largest in the world that were in 2024, they received significantly more attention.
Women's leaders received 1.25 times more mention than men and 1.7 times more attention, according to the number of articles when they left the role. Approximately 18 percent of the stories around the departures of male CEOs were negative, while women were 28 percent.
