As the world prepares to celebrate International Women’s Day on Wednesday, March 8th, recruiting experts Hays has found that the number of women in managerial positions has increased in Asia.
The 2017 Hays Asia Salary Guide reveals that 31 per cent of management roles in Asia are held by women compared to 29 per cent reported in last year’s Guide.
The Hays Asia Salary Guide now in its tenth year, highlights salary and recruiting trends drawn from more than 3,000 employers across Japan, mainland China, Hong Kong, Malaysia and Singapore representing six million employees.
The countries with the highest percentage of women in managerial positions in the region are mainland China and Malaysia, both at 35 per cent. Whilst mainland China has increased this figure by 3 per cent, Malaysia has decreased by 2 per cent from last year.
Hong Kong sits in third place with 33 per cent of management positions filled by women. Hong Kong incidentally, reported the largest increase in the region with a rise of 5 per cent from last year. Singapore follows with 31 per cent with Japan remaining the poorest performer with only 22 per cent of women in managerial positions. This figure has however, increased by 3 per cent from last year.
These findings come as Hays launch their 2017 Gender Diversity Survey also in line with International Women’s Day. The annual survey aims to uncover attitudes and perceptions of gender equality in the workplace.
“As progress continues to be made on gender diversity, the topic is still a critical issue in Asia. The rich insights our research uncovers, enables us to share the findings and advise employers on what measures can be taken to address the gender balance in their recruitment, retention and progression strategies”, says Christine Wright, Managing Director of Hays in Asia.
For Christine who was named in the ‘Global Power 100 – Women in Staffing list’ for the second year running in 2016, gender diversity is a topic she lives and breathes. “As the leading recruiting experts, Hays has a duty to be at the forefront of trends and issues regarding the world of work. In Asia, I’m immensely proud that 51 per cent of the Hays workforce across the region is female, 44 per cent of females make up our senior leadership teams and 57 per cent of people managers are female.”
The findings of the Hays’ gender diversity survey will be released later in summer. To take part in the survey, follow the link here.
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Hays plc (the "Group") is a leading global professional recruiting group. The Group is the expert at recruiting qualified, professional and skilled people worldwide, being the market leader in the UK and Asia Pacific and one of the market leaders in Continental Europe and Latin America. The Group operates across the private and public sectors, dealing in permanent positions, contract roles and temporary assignments. As at 30 June 2016 the Group employed 9,214 staff operating from 252 offices in 33 countries across 20 specialisms. For the year ended 30 June 2016:
– the Group reported net fees of £810.3 million and operating profit (pre-exceptional items) of £181 million;
– the Group placed around 67,000 candidates into permanent jobs and around 220,000 people into temporary assignments;
– 22% of Group net fees were generated in Asia Pacific, 45% in Continental Europe & RoW (CERoW) and 33% in the United Kingdom & Ireland;
– the temporary placement business represented 58% of net fees and the permanent placement business represented 42% of net fees;
– Hays operates in the following countries: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Chile, China, the Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UAE, the UK and the USA.