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Samsung Leads South Korea’s Top 100 Companies in Female Executives as Gender Diversity Rises Across Corporate Sector

Samsung Leads South Korea’s Top 100 Companies in Female Executives as Gender Diversity Rises Across Corporate Sector

SEOUL, Nov. 11 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics Co., South Korea’s tech giant, topped other local companies in the number of female executives this year, a local head hunting firm said Monday. Unico Search Inc. conducted a survey of the country’s top 100 companies in terms of sales to see how many female executives they [...]

Glass Ceiling High in S. Korean C-suite: Data

Glass Ceiling High in S. Korean C-suite: Data

SEOUL, Mar. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Slightly over 1 in 100 executives at South Korea’s top 30 conglomerates are women, data showed Wednesday, pointing to a high C-suite glass ceiling in Asia’s fourth-largest economy. As of end-September last year, 256 units of the leading business groups had 21 female directors, a mere 1.3 percent of [...]