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195 activities Unit 4, exercise 11 Unit 3, exercise 17a Group B 1 What are the main things the Batsuuri family seem to eat and drink? 2 How much of their food is:   fresh?   processed?   packaged? 3 Do you think they have a healthy diet? 4 What seems to be their main source of:   vitamins?   carbohydrates?   protein? Mongolia: the Batsuuri family of Ulaanbaatar Food expenditure for one week: $40.02 Student C Too many suits And not nearly enough skirts in the boardrooms A study found that in 2010 women held only 3.2% of all executive board seats in Germany’s 200 biggest non- financial firms. In the largest companies their share was even smaller. Financial institutions and insurance companies, where at least half of all employees are female, did no better than the rest, and state-owned companies were only slightly ahead. The glass ceiling , like everything else in Germany, is pretty solid.  Across Europe the proportion of women on company boards averages around 10%, though with large variations: from less than 1% in Portugal to 40% in Norway, thanks to that country’s much-cited quota system . America, at 16%, does somewhat better than the European average, and most emerging markets do less well. Numbers everywhere have barely moved over the past decade.  Among the Fortune 500* companies only about 15% of the most senior managers and only 3% of the CEOs were women. Female bosses like Indra Nooyi at PepsiCo, Irene Rosenfeld at Kraft Foods, Güler Sabanci at Sabanci Group and Chanda Kochhar at ICICI get more attention than their male colleagues precisely because women are still so rare at the top of large companies. It was big news when IBM appointed its first female CEO in its 100-year history, Virginia Rometty.  It is not that companies refuse to recruit or promote women. In most rich countries roughly half the new intake of graduates for most professional and managerial posts is female, and some of the women do move up. However, companies have long been saying that when they look for potential leaders “there are no women” in the pipeline. That may have been true 20 Disproportionate Women on corporate boards % of total, September 2011 United States France Sweden Norway Britain China Brazil India Russia Spain Germany 0 10 20 30 40 Sources: McKinsey; Catalyst Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv