More Mexican women are climbing the corporate ladder, but parity remains a distant dream

Under President Claudia Sheinbaum — Mexico’s archetypal pistillate president — much and much Mexican women are stepping into positions of powerfulness successful authorities and business. It’s a inclination that predates her administration, and that she arguably has benefited from. But portion sex parity laws person sped the introduction of women into authorities roles, the alteration successful the concern satellite has been slower.

In Mexico, the fig of women connected institution boards has been dilatory increasing. In ample companies, 17.5% of existent committee members are women, according to a caller study by the Mexican Institute for Competitiveness (IMCO). That’s a acold outcry from the mean successful different developed countries. Among Mexico’s adjacent countries successful the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), an mean of 32.5% of large companies’ committee members are women.

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In countries similar France and New Zealand, pistillate committee practice exceeds 47%. Mexico besides lags down different Latin American countries specified arsenic Colombia, Chile and Brazil.

The IMCO study recovered that 19% of boards are composed exclusively of men, portion 13% person nary women successful either committee positions oregon different applicable absorption roles. Furthermore, lone 5.5% of autarkic directors are women — compared to 28% of men — and conscionable 4% of women service arsenic committee chairs. 

Although practice of women successful fiscal and ineligible absorption positions has advanced, 64% of companies deficiency pistillate practice successful immoderate of their cardinal enactment roles. According to IMCO, women clasp lone 3% of CEO positions, 15% of CFO positions and 26% of ineligible positions.

Progress successful achieving sex equality successful cardinal positions has been accordant but slow, the study found. At the existent rate, Mexico won’t execute parity connected firm boards until 2043.

SMEs successful Jalisco see much women than ample companies

The study included an investigation focused connected the business assemblage successful the authorities of Jalisco, which is location to much than 365,000 businesses. It revealed that successful tiny and medium-sized enterprises (which marque up the immense bulk of Jalisco firms) astir fractional of the owners are women. However, disparities are greater successful ample companies. 

Jalisco women thin to pb selling and quality resources departments, portion men predominate successful operations and exertion areas. For each 4 promotions fixed to women, 5 are fixed to men.

IMCO: Mexico needs more  women connected firm boards

IMCO noted that Mexico could payment from having women successful decision-making positions, arsenic it not lone strengthens competitiveness but besides boosts their productivity and innovation. But to elevate women’s economical information from the existent complaint of 46% to the OECD mean of 67%, Mexico would request to incorporated 18.6 cardinal women into the labour market. 

IMCO anticipates that this alteration could output important benefits, perchance expanding the nationalist GDP by 6.9 trillion pesos by 2035.

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