The proportion of women executives rose to 7 percent in the first quarter of this year, following the implementation of a revised Capital Markets Act that banned a single-gender composition of a company board in August last year.
Of the 100 companies surveyed by UnicoSearch, a headhunting firm, 5.6 percent of leadership positions were held by women. This is the first time the 5-percent mark has been broken.
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