International mobility equality for men and women is at an all-time low, with 19% of women believing their firm doesn't actually employ equality when selecting candidates for international transfers. In Hong Kong and China, optimism is higher with the gap being 10%, according to PwC's 2016 report Modern mobility: Moving women with purpose to mark International Women’s Day last March.
The opportunities for international experience feature highly on the list of desirable employer traits—three-quarters of women in Hong Kong and China rated this highly, and similarly, 74% said it was a driving factor in keeping them with an employer. It echoes previous research which has suggested that 71% of female millennials want to work outside their home country during their career.
62% of both men and women said they would prefer long term assignments of up to five years, with more women preferring a shorter assignment than men and 13% more women preferring frequent business travel. Despite these desires, more than half of global mobility executives said their female employees were under-represented in their mobility populations.
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