Cracking the glass ceiling

It’s a metaphor that hardly needs explaining, yet little appears to have changed since this term was first coined over twenty years ago.

The number of women holding executive directorships is at a nine year low and only twenty per cent of women are promoted into leadership roles.

We have studied the performance of men and women leaders and helped many organisations address their gender gap and develop their women leaders.

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Listen to Chris Parry talk about women in business today. In the interview with journalist, Guy Clapperton on hrpodcast, Chris explores some of the reasons why there are still so few women at the very top in British business.  She explains that the issue often needs tackling at both an individual and an organisational level. (HrPodcast, Episode 1, 25 April 2008)

Read our feature article, 'Where are the women leaders?', to learn more about our research and why we think women are so absent from senior leadership roles. This article is listed under related links.

Download a copy of the article from Personnel Today describing the round table we hosted with senior HR women executives on the organisational challenges of women in leadership. You can also read about the programmes we run on women in leadership by downloading the paper, 'Cracking the glass ceiling'.

Contact us to speak to one of our people about our Women in leadership programme. Simply click here.