70% of decision makers would like to see a higher level of women representation in leadership positions || Newspapers (Arabic)

As Safir daily newspaper published a BBC report released within the framework of an overall research carried out by the Bank of America and focusing on the need to increase the representation of women in leadership positions. The person in charge of international strategic issues and marketing of the bank of America, Anne M. Finucane, noted that the world needed a more diverse generation of leaders in order to foster global collaboration and communication and so as to make the world a better place.
70% of the decision makers covered by the study indicated that women representation in decision making should increase whilst 90% of the respondents indicated that the global economy needs a more diverse group of leader to strengthen cooperation between the corporate world, governments and other sectors so as to improve the global economy.  The study was presented during the 2013 global economic forum in Davos and covered 12 countries including Brazil,  China, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Russia, South Africa, the UK and the USA, as well as 2112 respondents, all of whom  were decision makers in governmental and nongovernmental organisations, belonging to the highly educated and  high income brackets.

Source: Al-Safir 2 February 2013