International Women's Day was celebrated yesterday with the familiar flurry of surveys highlighting the dearth of women in senior business roles. The World Economic Forum, the organization behind the annual Davos gathering, added its voice to the chorus, with a hefty "Corporate Gender Gap Report" that purports to show women aren't making it to the top in companies around the globe. Internationally, the report found that an average of only 5% of large companies had females at the chief executive officer level, although women made up between a quarter and half of their work force.
The OECD offered a similar thesis. Although 62% of women in OECD countries are in paid work, only about a third of managerial posts are held by females, it explains in its new "Gender Brief."
The shrill protests that pick up on reports such as these use them to advance arguments that aren't necessarily justified. They claim the situation is the result of discrimination in the workplace, which needs to be redressed.
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