Just 12% of CEOs in large Irish enterprises are women, a survey revealed on Thursday.
The gender balance poll found females are also outnumbered in a host of other senior roles and make up only 20% of large company boards.
And the Central Statistics Office figures revealed just 7% of chief executive officers appointed in the past year were women.
Spokesman Gerard Doolan said: “Women occupied 12% of CEO
positions, 7% of board chairpersons, 20% of board membership and 28% of senior executive positions.
“One-third (34%) of senior executive appointments within the last 12 months were women and two-thirds (66%) were men.
“For appointments to boards of directors within the last year, 30% were women. For appointments made five or more years ago, 25% of senior executive appointments and 17% of appointments to boards were women.”
Meanwhile, the construction sector had the lowest ratio of females in senior executive jobs at 9%, while the services sector had the highest at 31%.
The amount of women in the industry sector was marginally lower with the females comprising 26% of senior executives.
Mr Doolan added: “Construction also had the lowest representation of women on boards of directors at 9%.
“In services, females accounted for 22% of board membership and in industry it was 17%.
“There was higher representation of women in foreign-owned
companies than in Irish-owned enterprises.
“In Foreign-owned enterprises, the senior executive team was 31% female and the board 21% female.
“In Irish-owned enterprises, 26% of the senior executive team and 19% of the board were women.”
