Who Runs Wales? 2009

The Commission’s Who Runs Wales? 2009 report looks at ten areas of Welsh life, including politics, health, and the private sector in order to assess the gender balance at decision-making tables in Wales. Taken as a whole, almost no progress has been made in achieving gender balance at Wales’s top tables since the 2004 report.

Key findings include:

  • A survey of Wales’s top 100 private companies found not a single female chief executive (or equivalent head position) in Wales. Ninety three of the 100 companies responded to the survey.
  • Only 9% of council leaders in Wales are women. Only 25% of councillors in Wales are women. There are no black or Asian women councillors in Wales.
  • Only 16% of secondary school head teachers are women despite 74% of teachers being women
  • Only 21% of local authority chief executives are women, despite 73% of all local authority staff being women.

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