Women in business 2024: Pathways to parity

For 20 years Grant Thornton have been measuring and monitoring gender diversity in senior management roles across mid-market businesses. There’s been welcome progress in this time; however, the 2024 report shows that progress is still too slow. Therefore, this report focuses on the pathways and tangible actions that businesses can deploy today, to have a measurable and positive impact on the number of women in senior leadership positions tomorrow. These are the pathways to parity.

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