PEOPLE | interview February 2022 www.womanthismonth.com 66 A year after examining women’s role in the boardroom, Accredited Chartered Manager (CMI), Eman Deabil, does a comprehensive study on the number of women in executive management roles in Bahrain. Last year, I conducted a study to examine women’s representation in the boardroom for a sample of 117 organisations in Bahrain. After a year, it’s worth mentioning that when looking at the boards of the same sample, the overall women representation has increased from 9.8 percent last year to 11 percent this year for two main reasons: • Women representation in boardrooms has increased for some organisations as a result of the actual increase in the number of women joining the boardrooms; 12 more women have booked their seats in the boardroom, congratulations! • The total number of board members decreased in some organisations, while women representation stayed the same. This contributes to increasing women representation percentage. This year, the same sample was used yet again to examine women representation in executive management roles. However, given that the executive management team was not published on some organisations’ websites, only 86 organisations were examined. Another limitation in this study was that in some instances, there was no clear distinction between executive management, senior management or even management team, while on some websites they were not differentiated. This makes it difficult to draw concrete conclusions especially with the different types and sizes of organisations. Now by looking at the data available for the 86 organisations and the area under study this time (i.e., women in executive/senior management) the following was noticed: • Total management roles were 869, out of which 695 were reserved for men (80 percent), whereas 177 were for women (20 percent). • 25 organisations out of the 86 have no women representation. Reached between 50 percent and 67 percent in six organisations. • 12 organisations (14 percent) were led by women holding the position of Chief Executive Officer (CEO)/General Manager/ President. Of these, five were educational WOMEN IN LEADERSHIP
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