Why is this always only about women being in leading positions ? Diversity also means women being garbage-collectors, construction workers or electricians. Are there some data about that ?
Did this take into account opportunities and choice? Women might choose not to do it even if they have the opportunities. Just how men tend not to go for teaching or nursing and therefore there is not equality in teaching or nursing. We have to stop looking at the end result, and look at the root. Are the opportunities there? If yes, then the rest is up to choice if people want those jobs to begin with.
I wonder how this index behaves when it looks into fields like nursery, care…etc. must be over9000 perfect equality, no men in sight.
I think there are some problems with methodology used in this report , for example number of companies in dataset is quite low and different for different countries, Like 133 in UK compared to 23 in Spain and 33 in Italy and 20 for Poland.
And then it tries to use metrics like : ” Number of companies with at least one more woman in leadership ” ( Since 2020 ) which UK tops with 43 ,which is no wonder , seems it had most companies in dataset to begin with.
Another thing is that it doesn’t try to use similar proportions of companies from different sectors, so Poland has like 7 companies in considered dataset from mining and energy sector which is not very gender diverse usually.
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source: [European Women on Board’s report](https://europeanwomenonboards.eu/portfolio/2021-gender-diversity-index/)
Why is this always only about women being in leading positions ? Diversity also means women being garbage-collectors, construction workers or electricians. Are there some data about that ?
Did this take into account opportunities and choice? Women might choose not to do it even if they have the opportunities. Just how men tend not to go for teaching or nursing and therefore there is not equality in teaching or nursing. We have to stop looking at the end result, and look at the root. Are the opportunities there? If yes, then the rest is up to choice if people want those jobs to begin with.
I wonder how this index behaves when it looks into fields like nursery, care…etc. must be over9000 perfect equality, no men in sight.
I think there are some problems with methodology used in this report , for example number of companies in dataset is quite low and different for different countries, Like 133 in UK compared to 23 in Spain and 33 in Italy and 20 for Poland.
And then it tries to use metrics like : ” Number of companies with at least one more woman in leadership ” ( Since 2020 ) which UK tops with 43 ,which is no wonder , seems it had most companies in dataset to begin with.
Another thing is that it doesn’t try to use similar proportions of companies from different sectors, so Poland has like 7 companies in considered dataset from mining and energy sector which is not very gender diverse usually.