Focus Taiwan
Date: 2017/01/08
By: Chiu Po-sheng and Evelyn Kao

Taipei, Jan. 8 (CNA) Although the percentage of women in top-level positions in Taiwan businesses is at a record high, there is still a big gap in the ratio of male to female chief executive officers, a Ministry of Finance (MOF) official said Sunday, citing statistics from the ministry.

As of the end of 2015, there were approximately 1.33 million companies in Taiwan, 36.1 percent of which were headed by women, the official said.

However, although the percentage of female CEOs was the highest in Taiwan’s history, it still represented a wide gender gap and was only a 0.5 percentage point increase from 2010, according to the official.

In fact, the official said, the gender gap was most likely wider than about 28 percentage points since in some cases women are only nominal heads of businesses that are actually run by their husbands.    [FULL  STORY]