strategic partners: In 2011, the WEF introduced a quota to encourage female participation. According to its terms, the forum strategic partners, consisting of around 100 companies, must bring along one woman in every group of five senior executives, according to The Independent. Davos 2015 in numbers And although the percentage has increased from a low of around 9 per cent in the early 2000s and 15 per cent last year, it is still dismally low. But this move didn t really get to the heart of the problem which is simply that the pool of women from which to choose is far smaller than that of men. Despite making up around half of the globe s total population obviously , women are still not equally represented among the world movers and shakers depressingly, that obvious too .
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