Infographic | Women in Business

1. Women on the Board

A Danish study found that companies with good numbers of women on the board outperformed those with no women

• $ 17% Higher return on sales
• $ 54% Higher return on invested capital

20% Leeds University Business School reports that having at least one female director on the board appears to cut a company's chances of going bust by about 20%. Having two or three female directors lowers the risk even more

2. Achievements: Women in the Workforce 

• Women make up 47% of the UK workforce 
• Eliminating gender discrimination in relation to occupation and pay
  could increase women's wages by about 50% and national output by 5%

3. Women and Entrepreneurship

• 4% of women are engaged in entrepreneurial activity compare to 9% of men
• If women set up businesses at the same rate as men, there would be an extra 150,000 start-ups in the UK each year

4. Women Have the Skills Employers Need

• 63.6% of girls achieve 5 or more GCSEs at grade A* to C or equivalent, including English and mathematics, GCSEs compared to 54.2% of boys
• 63.7 women
• 54.2% Men
• 57% is the proportion of first degree graduates that are women
• 50% of those on apprenticeships are women. The number of women doing apprenticeships has risen from 138,000 in 2009/10 to 330,000 in 2010/11
• 2010
• 2011
• 11N3 female graduates has a degree in health related studies or education, compared with only 1 in 11 male graduates
• 11N5 female graduates has a degree in business and finance, sciences or
  engineering, despite almost half of degrees being in these subjects

5. Souce:

www.gender.bitc.org.uk