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Change in management. „This big can't be accidental”
Over the past year, there has been a notable enhancement in gender diversity within Polish firms. Women now constitute nearly 33 percent of board members, as reported by Rzeczpospolita.
„Although major listed companies still face considerable challenges in fulfilling the EU Women on Boards directive, when considering a much broader range of firms—over 300,000—we can already take pride in nearly one-third representation of women on boards” – as stated by data from Dun & Bradstreet Poland, cited by „Rz”.
Women on company boards
These figures indicate a remarkable enhancement in gender representation within Polish businesses over the last year; the proportion of women serving as CEOs has risen by more than 3 percentage points, reaching a quarter (25%), while the percentage of women on boards has surged by as much as 5 percentage points, now at 32.6%. – Such a substantial shift cannot merely be coincidental – remarked Tomasz Starzyk, spokesperson and expert at Dun & Bradstreet Poland, as quoted by the daily, noting that while the representation of women on boards and in CEO roles has improved over the past two years, the advancement has been rather gradual. He acknowledges, however, that this considerable female presence in corporate leadership is significantly influenced by the structure of Polish business, where (similar to the rest of the EU) micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises are predominant.
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The issue of wages
„As noted by Małgorzata Starczewska-Krzysztoszek, an economist and expert at the Society of Polish Economists, the notable representation of women in the SME sector in contrast to large corporations is, among other factors, related to salary levels. Typically, wages in smaller businesses are lower, which is supported by the latest statistics from the Central Statistical Office regarding wage distribution. While the median salary in the largest companies surpassed PLN 7.8 thousand gross in September, it was close to the minimum wage at micro enterprises—PLN 4.3 thousand gross,” the newspaper reported.
