The percentage of women leaders in the commercial freight transportation industry continues to increase, according to data highlighted in Women in Trucking’s latest Index – an industry barometer to benchmark the percentage of women who make up critical roles in transportation.
The 2022 WIT Index shows 33.8% of C-suite executives in transportation companies are women, an increase of 1.5% compared with 2019 when the last WIT Index was measured. In addition, the 2022 WIT Index shows 39.6% of company leaders are female.
“Company leaders” are defined as someone with supervisory responsibilities and also includes executives within the C-suite.
“Every large carrier today started with a man and a truck,” said Ellen Voie, WIT’s president and CEO, in a press release. “As more and more women become leaders, owners and directors in the trucking industry we are looking forward to the days of women owned and led companies. »
The WIT Index shows 31% of individuals serving on boards of directors are female. There is evidence that larger companies in transportation tend to have a smaller percentage of women on their boards, according to Voie. For example, the 14 publicly traded asset-based carriers had an average of 23% women on their board of directors in 2021, according to Bloomberg. These companies continue to make progress in diverse gender representation on their boards, as this was up from 22% compared with 2020 and 18% in 2019. However, there is still significant to be done in incorporating more gender diversity to boards of directors, as the 2022 WIT Index shows 21% of respondents have no females on their boards.
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