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Despite the advances that exist in terms of gender equality, there are still few women who hold management positions.
Globally, only 19.7 percent of board seats are held by women.
Women hold only 6.7 percent of council presidencies.
Inclusion and diversity continues to be a recurring theme in today’s society, where companies are applying it to their work teams. Given this, Samsung, one of the technology giants, has marked a milestone in its own history, after appointing a president for one of its branches, in what is her first time in 84 years for the high office.
According to a study titled “Women on Boards of Directors: A global perspective”, by Deloitte Global, pointed out that, globally, only 19.7 percent of board seats are held by women.
In this same context, the study shows that women hold only 6.7 percent of council presidencies; while, at the CEO’s level, female participation was only 5 percent.
The same study highlights that in Mexico, this trend is more or less maintained within the private initiative (PI), where, in boards of directors, only 9.7 percent of the total number of members that integrate them it is female and 4.8 percent of the presidencies of said business bodies are in the hands of women.
Meanwhile, if we talk about CEO’s and CFO’s, the figures are considerably reduced, with only 1.6 percent and 1.7 percent of women in those positions, respectively.
Samsung and its first female president
This month, one of the technology giants has marked a milestone in its own history, Samsung Electronics, appointed Lee Young-hee as president of the area of marketing company overall.
In this way, the executive becomes the first woman from outside the founding family to hold this position within the Samsung structure.
Let us remember that the daughter of the late president of Samsung, Lee Boo-jin, currently holds that position, in addition to being executive director of the hotel chain and luxury stores Hotel Shilla, a subsidiary of the Asian company.
Lee Young-hee has extensive experience, having been part of the French cosmetics company L’Oreal. When she started at the technology company in 2007, she held the position of vice president of the marketing area since 2012. She is also responsible for the brand image of some of the company’s flagship products, for example, mobile devices. Galaxy.
The appointment of the executive is part of a corporate reform that is joined by six other appointments of presidents and seeks to encourage the rest of the women in the company to aspire to more important positions.
The decision surprises many, since the company is the largest “chaebol” in South Korea, a name given in Korean to conglomerates whose parent company is controlled by family clans.
The technology company is not the only company that adds to the inclusion of women in senior company positions, as global brands such as L’Oreal already maintain a great balance in their workforce around the world.
And this is how brands are the main faces of the social and historical changes that are currently taking place around the world.
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