During a 2024 survey carried out among marketers from the United Kingdom (UK), it was found that whenever a company had a marketing director or a chief marketing officer (CMO) in their leadership team, in **** percent of the cases, this person was a woman. The share was highest for business-to-business (B2B) companies, at **** percent.

During a 2025 survey carried out among more than ***** marketers from the United Kingdom, it was found that on the manager/team manager level women earned ***** percent less than men. On the director/vice-president level, they earned **** percent less than men.

According to an annual survey among chief marketing officers (CMOs) in North America and Northern and Western Europe, *** percent of their employers' revenues were allocated to marketing in 2024, down from *** percent a year earlier. In 2016, that share peaked at over ** percent. Diversity among CMOs in the United States… A study fielded in the U.S. revealed that women accounted for **** of Fortune 500 companies' CMOs in 2023. Two years before, the share stood at ** percent. Meanwhile, the percentage of people belonging to historically underrepresented racial or ethnic groups working as CMOs at the same group of organizations reached ** percent in 2023, down from ** percent a year earlier. … and in the United Kingdom A 2024 survey showed that, on average, the share of women among marketing directors or CMOs in the UK surpassed ** percent. Despite that female majority, several British companies did not offer a marketing leadership position to begin with. According to the same study, less than ********** of UK companies had a CMO or marketing director.

While parity was still not achieved in France in 2024, CAC 40 (which stands for "Cotation Assistée en Continu", or continuous assisted trading, and is used as a benchmark index for funds investing in the French stock market) and SBF 120 companies ("Société des Bourses Françaises", which is a stock market index on the Paris stock exchange) have made great progress in this area in recent years. While the proportion of women on boards of directors was only ** percent in SBF 120 companies in 2010, this figure reached **** percent in 2023.

In 2022, only ***** percent of industrial companies in Brazil had women as presidents. In the trade sector, ** percent of companies had women as presidents. In the services sector, the percentage of women on the board of directors was ** percent.

How gender equal is Sweden concerning politics? Despite still being dominated by men, the gap is closing; around ** percent of politicians in Sweden in 2018 were female. The gender gap was slighlty larger concerning chief officials in associations, and general, county council and municipalities directors; in these sectors ** percent of the people in charge were female in 2018. Despite this, the gender gap within the Swedish job market was substantial concerning managing directors of companies. Within this sector, only ** percent were women in 2018.