Men this is your career guide about women you work with.
The business case is compelling. Companies with more women in leadership posts simply perform better. Fortune 500 firms with the most female board members outperform those with the least by 26% on return on invested capital and 16% on return on sales, according to a 2011 Catalyst study.
Yet the number of women at the top is barely budging: some 5% of Fortune 500 chief executive officers and 17% of board members.
“If you want to change the numbers, you have to get men involved,” says Mike Kaufmann, chief financial officer of Cardinal Health. He’s doing just that: He leads the company women’s networking group.
Executives elsewhere are following suit. Bain & Co.’s global women’s leadership council, created in 2009, is now about 40% male. And for the first time, the National Association for Female Executives is including men in its fall round table meeting.
Men and women need to go beyond just talking to themselves. It is time to invite men to join the conversation women have been engaged in for some time.
Source: The Wall Street Journal, December 14, 2014
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