Progress in women in the lead
Despite a call for more « masculine energy »: there are more women at the top in Switzerland
The Schilling Report has been providing more transparency in the composition of the executive floors for 20 years. This year he also locates slight progress despite the headwind.
Swiss figureheads: EMS boss Magdalena Martullo-Blocher, SRG boss Susanne Wille, Logitech-CEO Hanneke Faber and Migros President Ursula Nold.
The signs for more equality between man and woman in the carpet floors are bad. Diversity departments in the companies are pushed back – or even completely closed. More “masculine Energy” is now in demand, as the Facebook driver Mark Zuckerberg recently formulated.
In the women's promotion stringer country Switzerland, the new tones of overseas do not seem to have a big impact-at least not, as can be seen from the latest Schilling report published on Thursday, which has been pursuing development among the largest 100 employers in the country for twenty years. The conclusion: it continues in this country, if still very slowly.
Within 20 years from 4 percent to 22 percent
Compared to twenty years ago, however, the steps are remarkable: at the start, the proportion of women in the business management was measly 4 percent – and climbed leisurely to 10 percent. In recent years, the development of the 20 percent mark provided for in the Stock Act has been accelerated. Now the proportion of women is 22 percent among the large Swiss employers.
A total of 12 of the 100 companies examined have a woman as a CEO. These include Logitech boss Hanneke Faber, EMMI boss Ricarda Demarmels, Ems-Lenker Magdalena Martullo-Blocher, Mobiliar CEO Michèle Rodoni and now also SRG boss Susanne Wille.
The picture is similar to the administrative councils, in which the average women's quota has increased from 10 to 33 percent since the start of the measurement. Seven companies are presided by women, as Headhunter Guido Schilling holds. Ursula Nold presides with Migros the largest Swiss employer. But soon it should only be six companies. Because in May, Implenia boss André Wyss from Monika Ribar will take over the Presidium at the SBB.
Women -free zones
But despite progress: A large number of companies still do not meet the targeted guidelines from stock law, the companies from 2026 (Board of Directors) or 2031 (management) (management) (management) (management) (management) are still mandatory. 33 companies miss the 30 percent brand at the Board of Directors, even 51 companies the target value of 20 percent women's share in the management. 23 companies or 19 percent of the companies examined does not have a single woman in the management.
In the case of strategic pencil, this value – albeit at a very low level – even rose slightly again in the past year: from 2 to 3 percent. For the two previous companies with women-free administrative councils, the hospital and hotel group Aevis Victoria and the building supplier Arbonia, new steel farmer Swiss Steel and the Packaging Industry Group Tetra Laval are joining.
Nevertheless, Schilling remains confident: « In Switzerland, the Point of No Return regarding women in the management levels is exceeded ». Mark Zuckerberg or a Trump government will not change anything.
