Gender diversity

Part 1Cultures with low gender diversity.

Part 2Cultures with high gender diversity.

Part 3Differences between women and men.

Part 1

Cultures withlow gender diversity

http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_GenderGap_Report_2013.pdf

Country Percentage of women leaders

Taiwan 21%

India 14%

Japan 8%

http://www.forbes.com/sites/susanadams/2014/08/05/companies-do-better-with-women-leaders-but-women-need-more-confidence-to-lead-study-says/

http://chartsbin.com/view/r80

Proportion of seats held by women in national parliaments

In Saudi Arabia, Saudi women accounted for less than 1% of the private-sector workforce in 2009.

www.strategy-business.com/article/11209?pg=all

In Saudi Arabia, children are – legally - under the sole guardianship of their father.

http://genderindex.org/country/saudi-arabia

In Saudi Arabia, women need to be accompanied by a male relative when travelling inside or outside the country.

http://genderindex.org/country/saudi-arabia

Of the 260 lingerie shops in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, 5 shops are staffed by women.

http://us.mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6A91S820101110

In Saudi Arabia, women and girls

are banned from sports.

http://www.hrw.org/world-report/2013/country-chapters/saudi-arabia

In Saudi Arabia, women are

banned from driving.

http://www.hrw.org/world-report/2013/country-chapters/saudi-arabia

The question of allowing women to drive in Saudi Arabia will save more than 500,000 jobs in addition to the social and economic benefits.

Prince Alwaleed bin Talal

Sourceshttp://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=58140http://edition.cnn.com/2013/04/15/world/meast/saudi-prince-women-driving

For Arab families, honor is one of the highest values.

Since family honor is dependent upon female purity, extreme modesty and sexual segregation must be maintained at all times.

http://www.healthcarechaplaincy.org/userimages/Cultural_Spiritual_Sensitivity_Learning_%20Module%207-10-09.pdf

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In 2013, Arwa Al-Hujaili became Saudi Arabia’s first female lawyer.

http://edition.cnn.com/2013/05/09/business/saudi-arabia-first-female-lawyer/

In 2013, Niloofar Rhmanibecame the first female pilot in Afghanistan.

http://www.kdab.afcent.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123349132

In China, only 12% of publicly listed companies have at least1 woman senior executive.

Chinese capitalism is ahead of Chinese communism – the Politburo remains 100% male.

http://blogs.hbr.org/2014/07/how-6-countries-compare-on-executive-gender-balance/

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There are 1% female executive committee members in the top 20 Japanese companies

http://blogs.hbr.org/2014/07/how-6-countries-compare-on-executive-gender-balance/

https://twitter.com/davos/status/426041675459596288

http://blog.oecdfactblog.org/?p=400

In India, women spend much more time than men each day doing housework

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In Italy, women spend 5 hours a day

on housework.

Men in Italy spend less than 1½ hours.

http://hbr.org/2013/04/women-and-the-economics-of-equality/ar/1

There are few women in the Italian parliament

http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_GenderGap_Report_2013.pdf

BMW was forced to recall a female-voiced navigation system on its 5 series cars in the late 1990s after being flooded with calls from German men saying they refused to take directions from a woman.

http://edition.cnn.com/2011/10/21/tech/innovation/female-computer-voices/

6% women on executive boards of the largest Swiss companies

http://www.schillingreport.ch/upload/public/5/4175/schillingreport%202014%20Webversion%20E.pdf

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1913 Norway

1963 Iran

1971 Switzerland

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Part 2

Cultures withhigh gender diversity

http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_GenderGap_Report_2013.pdf

Country Percentage of women leaders

Canada 50%

Philippines 41%

USA 41%

Thailand 40%

http://www.forbes.com/sites/susanadams/2014/08/05/companies-do-better-with-women-leaders-but-women-need-more-confidence-to-lead-study-says/

For companies in the top quartile of executive-board diversity, ROEs in the USA were 95% higher, on average, than they were for those in the bottom quartile.

https://www.mckinseyquarterly.com/Organization/Talent/Is_there_a_payoff_from_top-team_diversity_2954

Firms with women in top positions perform better - especially if the firms pursue an innovation intensive strategy, in which creativity and collaboration are especially important.

Source2008 study on the top 1,500 U.S. companies from 1992 to 2006.http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/07/the-end-of-men/308135/?single_page=true

Sourceshttp://www.catalyst.org/media/companies-more-women-board-directors-experience-higher-financial-performance-according-latesthttp://www.mckinsey.com/insights/organization/changing_companies_minds_about_women

Fortune 500 companies with the highest percentages of women board directors outperformed those with the least by 66% measured by return on invested capital.

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In Scandinavia, the percentage of women on corporate boards is relatively high

In Scandinavia and in France, public expenditure on child care and pre-school education services is relatively high

http://assets.unicef.ch/downloads/rc8_eng.pdf

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Part 3

Differences between women and men

http://www.slideshare.net/frankcalberg/differences-between-women-and-men

Further inspiration

http://listverse.com/2014/08/26/10-weird-reasons-why-women-got-the-vote/http://youtu.be/webDIsNF0NI

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