Top Businesswomen 2016
The women that are transforming the corporate Latin American landscape. Latin American corporates still have a long way to improve the number of women in leadership positions. As of 2015, none of Latin Trade’s Top 50 companies have a female CEO. The above figure adds evidence to the data collected by AS/COA, which shows that women hold only 5.6 percent of board seats in Latin America’s top companies, compared with 21.2 percent in the largest publicly listed European companies, as reported by the European Commission. But where they lack in numbers, they certainly make up for in sheer skill. Take for instance one of the new additions to the list: Mayra Gonzalez, appointed President of the Mexican unit of Japanese […]