Why Too Few Women Hold Top Non-profit Jobs
By
Rebecca Knight
Financial Times
June 28, 2011
Women may hold the vast majority of staff jobs in the non-profit sector, but female leadership is sorely lacking at the senior management level. Of the top 50 leadership positions in the sector, men hold 62 per cent and women 38 per cent, according to a recent national Non-profit Employment Trends Survey.
Women may hold the vast majority of staff jobs in the non-profit sector, but female leadership is sorely lacking at the senior management level. Of the top 50 leadership positions in the sector, men hold 62 per cent and women 38 per cent, according to a recent national Non-profit Employment Trends Survey.
Why is this? I spoke with Liz Maw, executive director of Net Impact, a non-profit that aims to help people in business promote social and environmental sustainability, about the lack of women leaders.
