“What I’ve found is that if you’re willing to be vulnerable, then people are willing to be vulnerable to you, and that’s when you get true dialogue and true progress.”
However, despite these stories of success during the pandemic, many challenges remain for female business leaders – and the young women who want to become one.
A recent report found that women, in general, are still not seen as being as suitable for leadership roles as men.
The study in question – the third annual Reykjavik Index for Leadership, external – interviewed more than 20,000 adult men and women across 10 countries back in July – the G7 nations of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the UK, and the US, plus India, Kenya and Nigeria.
People were asked whether they thought men or women made better leaders, or whether there was no gender difference, across 22 political, government, legal and business sectors.
From this a 100-point scale was calculated, with the top score of 100 meaning that men and women were viewed as equally suitable leaders. The lower the figure, the fewer people consider women to be as good for the top positions.
