Female managers on the rise
Posted by meb at March 9th, 2008
Among manager candidates in the Turkish private sector, 40 percent are women, similar to a global trend reflecting a rapid rise in the number of female managers, according to a recent study conducted by Boyden, a private company that matches appropriate high-level managers with appropriate jobs.
Among this 40 percent, 10 percent of the women are high-level managers. Women in Turkey become high-level managers in later years, when compared to their male counterparts, the study also found. In 2007, 20 of the 56 high-level managers who settled into top-performing firms in Turkey were women.Boyden conducted the research using data from 30,000 people who applied to the firm. The study consisted of 16 European countries including Belgium, England, the Netherlands and Germany.
People become managers between the ages 40 and 45 according to the world average, while the youngest managers are in Sweden at the age of 30. In the Czech Republic women become managers at an average age of 32, while men reach the manager’s seat at 37. Germany, France, Netherlands and Spain are also countries in which women become managers at an earlier age than men, in contrast to Turkey.
“Women managers work in a way that they focus on humans much more and they are milder,” said Özlem Ergün, the head of Boyden Turkish Branch. Ergün is the founder of the Turkish branch of the company as well. When the candidate pools of those 16 countries were examined, the numbers of married, single and mother manager candidates were almost equal. Ergün said this was an indication that women can climb the career ladder in business without sacrificing their responsibilities at home.
Source: Turkish Daily News
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