A new Dun & Bradstreet survey reveals that while 46 percent of the working population are women, only 2.5 percent of the chairpersons serving on boards of Israeli companies are women.
The survey tested the conditions in 1,400 of the largest companies in Israel rated on the Duns 100 in the various market sectors. Among the chairwoman serving are Iris Stark, chairwoman of the Port of Ashdod, and chairwoman of the Forum of Financial Managers, Noga Keinan.
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, CEO of Ormat Industries and Judith Richter, CEO of Medinol. In addition, only 11.8 percent of the senior VPs are women, and only 14 percent of all senior management positions are held by women.
Out of all top technical management, there are no women at all. Other statistics evaluating women's place in the market includes percent. Out of all operations managers, only 7 percent are women, out of all logistics managers, only 10 percent are women, out of all financial managers, only 14 percent are women, and out of all marketing managers, only 17 percent are women. In contrast, a not surprising stat says that out of all human resources managers, 45 percent are women.
Companies which are leading the market with employment of top women managers we can find companies such as Bank Leumi, which as women in all levels of management including CEO Galia Maor, and senior VP Rakefet Aminach-Rosek.
The Manpower company also has good female representation with Chairwoman Dalia Narkis, CEO Orna Segal, VP of marketing Shulamit Gilan and three other division managers.
D&B economists also mentioned positive numbers in the sectors of Internet providers and the real estate sector. An examination of the area of law shows that women are relatively dominant in the areas of labor law and patent law.
Reuben Kovent, CEO of D&B said that "the low rates of women employed in top management positions in the upper echelons of the Israeli market is a badge of shame for the Israeli market. However, there has been an improvement over the past few years where more and more women reach top positions and prove they are not less skilled than their male counterparts."
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