The UAE is making serious progress on gender equality with a focus on private sector partners. Accenture is among the latest companies to sign a pledge to improve female leadership ratios.
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Women accounted for 45% of new board appointments at Fortune 500 companies in 2021, according to Heidrick & Struggles’ annual US Board Monitor report.
Throughout the pandemic, women have been quitting their jobs at significantly higher rates than men, largely exacerbated by the levels of burnout in women across the workforce. As part of Bain & Company’s recent study, The Fabric of Belonging: How to Weave an Inclusive Culture, the firm surveyed more than 4,500 women—in seven different countries and across all levels of their organizations—to learn about how they think and feel about inclusion in the workplace. The firm found that, on average, only 25% of women feely fully included in the workplace.
IBM’s organisation in Egypt has hit a leadership milestone, seeing Marwa Abbas become the first woman to take the reins of the local practice since its founding over 60 years ago.