CEOs Say They Want to Promote Women Yet Lack the Plans to Do So
- 60% of U.S. firms don’t have strategies for female leadership
- Change could happen quickly with a bit of effort: Accenture
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There’s no shortage of corporate leaders who say they care about diversity and pledge to promote more women. The executives in charge of human resources, however, say there are few if any strategies for actually making it happen.
Only 40 percent of U.S. companies have action plans to advance women to senior leadership roles, according to in which 400 top HR officers in the U.S. and Canada were surveyed. The percentage is even lower in Canada, at 36 percent. And in both cases less than half -- 41 percent in the U.S., 44 percent in Canada -- have strategies for hiring more women at the entry level to fill leadership positions down the line.