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Women in managerial positions

Comparison between Canada and Japan
Step 1

https://www.catalyst.org/

Step 2

https://www.catalyst.org/research/women-in-management/
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Canada
Men Continue to Hold Over 90% of C-Level Executive Roles27

In Canada, women accounted for slightly more than a third (35.6%) of all managers and 30.9% of
senior managers in 2021.28

Women were only 52 of the 533 named executive officers among Canada’s 100
largest publicly traded corporations in 2021.29

 Women were only 20.5% of C-suite positions in 2021 on the S&P/TSX composite index, up
from just 16% in 2015.30
 In 2021, the most common position for women among executive officers in the C-suite was
CFO

 43.4% of other managers

Japan
Is Falling Short of Its Own Goals

After extending the timeline of a proposed 2020 target of 30%, women in Japan still hold
only 15% of management roles in 2021, despite making up 40% of the workforce—a
number that remained steady from 2013 to 2019.15

Women’s representation is not distributed equally across levels of management:16

 Vice presidents: 7%
 Senior managers: 11%
 Managers: 19%
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