Indian cos employ lowest female talent across the globe: WEF

“Out of our sample,India is the country with the lowest percentage of female employees (23 per cent),followed by Japan (24 per cent),Turkey (26 per cent) and Austria (29 per cent),” the report said.

The US (52 per cent),Spain (48 per cent),Canada (46 per cent) and Finland (44 per cent) display the highest percentage of total female employees from WEF’s sample,it added.

“The findings are an alarm bell on International Women’s Day that corporate world is not doing enough to achieve gender equality. While a certain set of companies in Scandinavia,the US and the UK are indeed leaders in integrating women,the idea that most corporations have become gender-balanced or women-friendly is still a myth,” WEF head of women leaders and gender parity programme Saadia Zahidi said.

The survey on 600 human resources heads in the world’s largest employers in 20 countries,benchmarks them against gender equality policies that most companies should have in place but are widely missing.

At industry level,the services sector employs the greatest percentage of women staff.