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It is a known fact that women are still under<\/span>–<\/span>represented in leadership positions, both in the public as well as the private sector.\u00a0 In fact, on average,<\/span>\u00a0women account for<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>23.3%<\/span><\/a>\u00a0of board members of the largest companies in the EU.<\/span>\u00a0 What\u2019s worse is that\u00a0<\/span>only 7%<\/span><\/a>\u00a0of board chairs, presidents and chief executives of the largest companies in the EU are women.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0 This is both unfair\u00a0<\/span>and<\/span>\u00a0suggest<\/span>s<\/span>\u00a0untapped potential<\/span>.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n A<\/span>ccording to recent research,\u00a0<\/span>companies with a higher representation of women in top positions often\u00a0<\/span>register\u00a0<\/span>better organisational and financial performance.\u00a0 Moreover, 65% of university graduates are women,\u00a0<\/span>a sign that more equal representation should be on the cards in higher echelons of both the government and corporate worlds.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Therefore,<\/span>\u00a0it comes to no surprise that<\/span>\u00a0one of the priorities of the<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>v<\/span>on der\u00a0<\/span>Leyen<\/span>\u00a0Commission is to tackle this lack of representation and make sure it\u2019s a priority on the political agenda.\u00a0<\/span>This was demonstrated by the choice of women representatives at the top levels of the European Commission.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n In fact<\/span>, Ursula von der\u00a0<\/span>Leyen<\/span>,\u00a0<\/span>the\u00a0<\/span>first female president of the European Commission, managed to (almost) attain gender parity in her college of Commissioners since\u00a0<\/span>11 o<\/span>ut of the 26 Commissioners are women.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Hence, there is great expectation that the current Commission will be putting forward concrete measures\u00a0<\/span>in favour of gender balance in decision-making\u00a0<\/span>and<\/span>\u00a0on company boards in the coming months<\/span>. This will hopefully translate to better representation of women in top positions in the years to come.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It is a known fact that women are still under–represented in leadership positions, both in the public as well as the private sector.\u00a0 In fact, on average,\u00a0women account for\u00a023.3%\u00a0of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3329,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"spay_email":""},"issuem_issue":[151],"issuem_issue_categories":[14],"issuem_issue_tags":[],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"2.8.8","language":"en","enabled_languages":["mt","en"],"languages":{"mt":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/3338"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3338"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/3338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3340,"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/3338\/revisions\/3340"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"issuem_issue","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issuem_issue?post=3338"},{"taxonomy":"issuem_issue_categories","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issuem_issue_categories?post=3338"},{"taxonomy":"issuem_issue_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issuem_issue_tags?post=3338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}