‘If you take your foot off the pedal at all, you will start to stall’: Women in C-suite roles have stagnated, and the reasons go beyond the pipeline

The proportion of women in C-suite roles and on corporate boards has plateaued at around 30%, reversing a decade-long upward trend.

The stagnation in women's representation at the top of companies is not solely due to a lack of qualified candidates, as the pipeline of women in management roles has improved.