Women in Business 2025: Impacting the missed generation

For 21 years, we’ve tracked the proportion of women occupying senior management roles in mid-market companies around the world. The last five years have seen sustained growth on this key measure and, as a result, we now expect parity to be reached in 2051. But, as we’ve said in previous reports, that isn’t soon enough.  

At the current rate of progress, a young woman starting her career today will be working for more than a quarter of a century before she can expect to work at a mid-market firm with gender parity in top roles. We must act now to increase the pace towards parity – we owe it to women and to the economies and societies that sustain us. And so, it’s apt that the theme for International Women’s Day 2025 is ‘Accelerate Action’.[1] We simply can’t afford another missed generation.

 
[1] IWD 2025 campaign theme is 'Accelerate Action' - International Women's Day

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