Women get fewer high-visibility roles, a survey reveals

Women get fewer high-visibility roles, a survey reveals

    Not all leadership opportunities are created equal. Women get fewer of the high visibility, mission-critical roles and international experiences—the so-called “hot jobs”—that are key to getting ahead at global companies. According to a new Catalyst report, Good Intentions, Imperfect Execution? Women Get Fewer of the Hot Jobs Needed to Advance, unequal access to those hot jobs may be an underlying cause of the persistent gender gap at senior levels.
    Formal leadership training isn’t the answer either. Catalyst research shows that on-the-job experience leads to advancement more quickly than training—and even among those who have completed training programmes, men are still more likely than women to get access to hot jobs. 

 
KEY FINDINGS 62 per cent of respondents said high-profile assignments that gave them leadership experience had the greatest impact on their careers, while only 10 per cent cited formal training programmes as most impactful;
Men are reported of having roles with more critical responsibility—for profit and loss (56 per cent of men v/s 46 per cent of women); men reported leading projects with bigger budgets (more than twice the size of women’s);
More men than women got hot jobs after being in formal leadership development programmes, and more men were promoted within a year of programme completion (51 per cent of men v/s 37 per cent of women).