FTSE 350 on the right track to miss 40 % goal for executives

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The largest companies listed in the UK are scheduled to miss the target of 40 percent of the best executive roles by 2025, according to a government -backed campaign to enhance female representation.

The FTSE leaders review found that women make up 35.3 per cent of the higher leadership roles – defined as the Executive Committee and senior managers are less direct than this level – via FTSE 350 in 2024, putting companies on the right track to miss the target of 40 percent this year.

While the largest UK companies The annual review report said on Tuesday that the “amazing distance” to achieve the goal – after increasing female representation in the executive ranks from 24.5 percent in 2017 – said the annual review report on Tuesday.

The goal cannot be achieved “even after 2025, as some companies still have less than a third of their leadership roles that women are held,” according to the report. The end of this year represents the deadline for Five years review.

I have made companies Better On increasing the number of women on panels. The campaign said that 43.4 percent of the roles of the Board of Directors in FTSE 350 companies were occupied by women last year, up from 25 percent in 2015 And only 9.5 percent in 2011.

The FTSE women leaders review was launched in 2021 as a successor to Hampton Alexander and Davis reviews. In addition to the increasing goals of the paintings, they were given an extensive shortcut to consider the higher executive roles.

Women make up 32.7 per cent of the FTSE Executive Committee roles, an increase of 30.4 percent in 2023. But nearly a third of companies did not cross the threshold of 33 percent yet.

Marx and Spencer FTSE was 100 with the largest number of women in the leadership team, followed by the Person educational company and the next retail trade.

Meanwhile, the Freshnillo, Games Group Group and Games collection, which makes Warhammer, is ranked by groups that have the lowest percentage of women in leadership roles.

“There has been a payment, through many initiatives, to reach this mark, and although optics look good, there are still some real challenges,” said Pavita Cooper, 30 % president of the UK. Executive managers to increase gender diversity at the levels of management and senior management. “Women are not in the right roles to go to the best jobs.”

Cooper added that women in the Executive Committee often managed “support” jobs such as compliance and human resources instead of possessing ownership on financial affairs and entire business departments, which leads to the “gap of strength.”

This report comes at a time when Headhunter Russell Reynolds Associates has been published separately on Tuesday showing the leaders of leaders “Double link” When they take the higher position – they are criticized for being very ambitious or not ashamed enough.

“It is really a blatant dual standard,” said Laura Sanderson, co -chair of Europe, Middle East and India.

The report, which looked at more than 20,000 news articles covering nearly 750 executives at FTSE 100, S&P 500 and Euronext 100 and includes comments from analysts, shareholders and policymakers, says that women are viewed more negative in the public eye.

Sanderson said: “Often society expects women to walk in leadership positions on a circuit between being eligible, which requires an ambitious and beloved offer, which often requires reducing ambition,” Sanderson said.

The Rylolds report found that although women were only 11 percent of the total executive dates and 6 percent of the executive director of the largest listed companies in the world in 2024, they received much greater attention in the media.

Women’s executives have received 1.25 times more than men and 1.7 times of attention, through the number of articles, when they left a role. About 18 percent of the stories about the departure of male executives were negative, while the number was 28 percent for women.