09.03.2011                      03.Adar ll, 5771

Welt-Frauentag:

Israel ranks global No. 2 for female board members, at 15%

Catalyst: It's proven, companies with more women execs do better.

The labor market is central to creating equal opportunity for women. But a census by the international organization Catalyst finds that Israel has a way to go, participants in the Women in Business Conference, held at Tel Aviv University, were told yesterday.
The census, a collaboration between Catalyst, the Israel Women's Network and food manufacturer Strauss Group, and carried out by Geocartography, was the first of its kind. It checked the representation of women in top management positions at big companies on the TA-100 index and in the workforce in general….