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Chinese women occupy few leadership roles, survey finds
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WOMEN in China occupy much fewer leadership roles in the workplace than their male counterparts even though the country has one of the highest female employments in the world, a survey showed.
A mere 17 percent of senior managers, 6 percent of chief executive officers and 8 percent of board directors in China are woman, according to a survey on gender parity in workplace released by Bain & Company Inc today.
“The figures were much lower than expected given the large number of women in the workforce and the high level of their career aspirations,” the US-based consulting firm said in the report.
Data from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development showed China was in the fourth place in a 2013 ranking of female employment rate, with 73 percent of female population aged between 15 and 64 in work.
That was only behind 80 percent in Iceland and 74 percent in Switzerland and Norway and ahead of many advanced countries including the UK, Australia and the US.
The lower female occupation in senior position was also in contrast to a high level of career ambition among female employees as 72 percent of woman respondents said they used to or still aspire to be a senior business executive or leader, according to the survey.
Conducted in May, the survey involved 850 respondents, with 56 percent male and 44 percent female, and covered a variety of positions in organizations across more than 25 industries in more than 50 cities.
The survey figured out reasons that accounted from the dearth of women in senior roles, including competing priories between career and family, differences in women’s and men’s leadership styles and both gender’s biases against women’s style of leading, and organizational biases against women.
“While the workplace situation is improving for women in China, real change must come from within the companies themselves to counter prevailing stereotypes,” said Jennifer Zeng, co-author of the study and a Bain partner.
Bain proposed a set of measures for organization to better support women, such as investment in offering real equal opportunities in recruiting, promotion and compensation and having female role models in top positions.
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