Gender agenda

摘要

Congratulations on your awards at the 'Asia Women in Business Law Awards'. Why do you think there is a significantly lower number of women than men in leadership positions in Hong Kong? Susie Cheung:'It is true that the proportion of women sitting on the corporate boards and executive committees, not just in Hong Kong, but across Asian countries, is strikingly low compared with Europe and the US, even though women remain under-represented in those regions too. An international comparison of some of the developed countries shows that the Nordic countries continue to lead the developed world in their percentage of female directors - in Norway the figure is 36.1%. Currently in Hong Kong 9.5% of directors are female and in mainland China the figure is 8.4%. This puts us above average in Asia - Japan has a mere 1.1% of women representation on its boards!