A look at the move towards “co-gender leadership”

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VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) – If you walk the halls of big corporations these days, you will see more and more women occupying executive spots. It is part of a new trend called “co-gender leadership.”

It is a relatively new term in the business world, but one that is making a change to company’s landscapes.

Women of Influence Inc. was part of a recent survey of over 300 senior executive women across North America.

CEO Carolyn Lawrence says it is clear there is a move towards co-gender leadership, which is a corporation that has a diverse and inclusive culture of senior executives.

She says companies benefit from this diversity. “We know gender-intelligent corporations are earning on average 34 per cent higher profit than companies who aren’t. So, who wouldn’t want that in today’s economy?”

But Lawrence says although we are seeing more women at the top, they are still experiencing challenges, like being excluded from formal networks or simply “being left out of the boys club.”

“It is just something that male-dominated cultures do and they certainly do not do it on purpose. Men are often not aware that they are doing this. This is just their natural instinct to form these informal networks.”

She believes to combat this, women need to be better at strategic networking in a way that works for them.

Lawrence notes another advancement women are making: 84 per cent of the female executives surveyed said they no longer felt it was necessary to act like a man to succeed in the corporate world.

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