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China ranks 2nd in female CEO percentage
By Hu Xiaocen | April 30, 2014, Wednesday
China had the second-highest percentage of women chief executive officers in the world during the past decade after the United States and Canada, a private report showed.
The US and Canada had the highest percent of women CEOs between 2004 and 2013 at 3.2 percent, followed by China's 2.5 percent. Japan had the lowest rate of 0.8 percent, Strategy&, formerly known as Booz&Co prior to the takeover by PricewaterhouseCoopers, said in a report today.
“Women CEOs are still rare, but they are becoming more prevalent, and we expect that trend to accelerate,” the consultancy firm said in the report. “By 2040, we project that women will make up about a third of new CEO appointments.”
Companies in the information technology, consumer staples, and consumer discretionary industries had the highest percentages of women leaders while the materials industry had the lowest.
In China, women contribute half of the workforce. However, while 50 percent take up entry jobs the figure drops to 10 percent for senior positions. Although China has a high internal promotion rate for CEOs at 84 percent, the opportunities for women are limited, partially because they have an earlier retirement age compared to men.
To get around this, some women have chosen to run their own business. A quarter of China's entrepreneurs are female.
Furthermore, half of the world's self-made female billionaires are from China, Sarah Butler, managing director of Strategy& in China, told Shanghai Daily.
Who told you Chinese people cannot do that? Besides we are far more liberal and progressive than most, since we aren't religious at all.
Homosexuality is illegal in India. Its not in China.
So if we are to be completely honest, we can't really assemble to protest the government, the one difference.
While at the same time, our environmental problems are getting the attention, India don't even have a station that measures some of the most important pollutants.
China is punishing far more corrupt politicians than rest of the world combined, but you don't really think the rest of the world has less corrupt politicians do you.
This can be taken in many different ways. So what do you mean exactly? Just screaming until sun down? Or one's words actually have weight? What can't Chinese do?
Very well-said.
Indian democracy is like giving the mass-rapists freedom while never questioning the ongoing oppression of women and children (especially female children) and the low castes.
Indian democracy is a facade; inside is chaos, filth and oppression. Just because India is a nobody today (no challenge to no body) its social ills are being ignored.
If India had achieved one-tenth of the progress China achieved socially, the situation would be different today. India would have been a slightly developed country (in terms of social and cultural, as well economic, conditions) and would have felt the heat of international criticism.
It is not that India is what it is today because it is democratic. A Chinese model would probably have had a worse outcome. It is because Indian social development is somehow backward and hindered because of the elite/rich/class interest.
China's model is indigenous and not free from shortcomings. But it is an organic system, thus, it maintains its vitality. No other society on the face of the earth has gone through so many dramatic social adjustments and reforms than China.
China's governance is not rigid, but, evolving and dialectical.
China learns from India so as not to repeat the same mistakes.
China learns from Libya and Syria so as not to allow anything similar to happen in China.
India's problems are not because it is democratic (I mean they hold elections every four (?) year). China's problems are not because it does not hold elections.
The question is whether you have an effective and progressive government to address and tackle the problems or not.
China does have a progressive and liberationist government.
India has not so far.
