Womenwise Co-Founders Carole Cooper and Melanie Waters Ryan
Worldwide, slightly less than four women hold leadership positions for every ten men in business and politics.
Even though progress has been made globally to encourage more women into leadership positions, driven by a combination of market forces, technological change, government measures and female activism, women are still heavily under-represented in APAC leadership positions.
Womenwise, founded in 2015 by a group of female leaders from Flight Centre Travel Group (FCTG), launched its Asia chapter on 19 September 2019. Womenwise chapters can already be found in Australia, The Americas, UAE and South Africa.
While FCTG has a global SWOT leadership of 58% women, that number dwindles to only 35% in Asia. Carole Cooper, Global Peopleworks Leader and co-founder of Womenwise said, “Our goal for Asia is 50%. When you have a balanced team, you have different thinking, different experiences and that is what makes it a lot richer.”
Paul Arkwright
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