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The ECB aims to double number of women in management roles

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30th Aug 13 11:17 am

The European Central Bank has announced that it aims to double the number of women holding its senior management roles by 2019.

At the moment only 14% of senior managers are women, and 17% of middle managers. Its new gender quota specifies that those figures should increase to 28% and 35% respectively.

There have only been two women out of a total of 18 people that have taken executive board positions at the ECB since its foundation in 1998: Austrian Gertrude Tumpel-Gugerell and Sirkka Hamalainen, from Finland.

The ECBโ€™s target, if it can be pulled off, would compare very favourably to the current gender balance of FTSE companiesโ€™ boards.

Women make up only 17.4% of FTSE100 board positions and 12% of FTSE250 board positions, as of March this year. Those numbers are up by nearly half on 18 months prior.

More on women in business:

Boardroom balance: Where are all the ladies?

Will we ever achieve gender balance in the boardroom?

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