A Woman's Place Is In The Boardroom

Question 1

Boardroom

Answer 1

Not juste the Workplace but the highest levels of executive responsibility

Question 2

Powerful female executives

Answer 2

Marissa Mayer CEO of Yahoo!

Sheryl Sandberg chief operating officer, first female board member

Question 3

Board

Answer 3

Comité

Direction

Question 4

Underrepresented at the top of the corporate ladder

Answer 4

Only 15% sit on executive boards in America

10% in Europe

Question 5

Barriers to women’s achievement in the professional world

Answer 5

Have undeniably fallen

Question 6

Young women in the west

Answer 6

Better educated than men

Question 7

What are to blame for the glass ceiling

Answer 7

Persistent sexism and the plus buddy network are no doubt partly to

Question 8

With so few female role models and mentors in positions of power

Answer 8

Professional women are handicapped in the competition to get to the top

Question 9

One way of redressing the balance

Answer 9

Is to impose quotas on executives boards as Norway of France have done

Question 10

This solution brings its own set of problems

Answer 10

It forces companies to give out power ont he baisi of gender rather than on merit alone
–> can reflect negatively on women who do get promoted