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Women holding the CFO role is nearing parity – reshaping finance leadership and potentially helping increase female representation across all senior roles.

For 21 years, the Women in Business report has tracked the proportion of women in senior roles in the mid-market. Progress has been made but with gender equity over 25 years away, that isn’t soon enough.

Achieving gender balance in top tech roles by boosting prospects for early career women in tech, measuring turnover by gender and committing to greater transparency to attract women to the technology industry.

Women’s leadership in senior positions can impact the commercial performance of mid-market businesses including profit expectations.

Businesses have started to put guidelines and incentives in place, focused on driving employees back to the office.

The most successful strategy to achieve parity of women in senior management is one which stands alone, independent of an ESG strategy.

To push towards parity of senior management roles held by women, who leads within an organisation is vital.

We saw an increase in the percentage of senior management roles held by women, on a global level, but there are some significant regional and country variations.

Without a greater focus on the issue, women’s parity in senior management won’t be reached until 2053 at the current rate.

2024 marks the 20th year of Women in business where we monitor and measure the proportion of women occupying senior management roles around the world.

This year’s Women in Business report – The Push for Parity shows that globally, 32.4% of senior management positions are now held by women.

Progress on the overall number of women in senior leadership continues, but it’s concerningly slow.

Although positive, progress is slow. This year, women in mid-market companies hold 32.4% of senior management positions, up 0.5pp from last year’s 31.9%.

Grant Thornton research reveals big increases in the percentage of women occupying chief executive officer (CEO), managing director (MD), and chief information officer (CIO) positions.

Here you will find reports from our 19 years of research; opinions and advice to help your business be more diverse and inclusive.

Five recommendations to push for parity, and accelerate progress.