Rising women workforce has been one of the world’s most remarkable economic developments. In the recent decades, women have become more inspirational in building work culture by bringing in vigorous competition, nurturing teamwork and thereby helping an organization grow and perform to its full potential. More and more companies are supporting female leadership and fostering gender equality in work environment. In most countries, women make up at least 40 percent of the workforce.

To help women advance in their career, a lot of companies are implementing new tools and providing mentorship programs. Organisations try to ensure that all employees, be it men or women, experience same hiring process, equal pay, and promotion opportunities. As companies adopted a hybrid working module, it has been reported that in the past one year there has been a 40 percent rise in the number of job opportunities available for women.

Skills that women bring into the workforce:

• Risk takers
• Communicate better
• Great listeners
• Focus on teamwork
• Good at multitasking
• Aim for perfection

of respondents have worked in a team led by a female manager of which 59% currently work in a team led by a women

of respondents found female managers effective overall, of which 49% said that they were highly effective.

of respondents would prefer to work for a female boss followed by 26% that would prefer to work for a man and 35% that have no preference

of respondents generally have a positive attitude towards women managing their team and 62% of them are positive about women leading their organization.

of respondents think women are better at leadership positions compared to 35% of respondents thinking men are better leaders

of respondents somewhat or strongly agree that women in managerial positions are often held to higher performance standards than men

Source- ResumeLab