The table depicts the proportion of women who held senior manager positions in three companies during the period from 1975 to 2015. Overall, there was an upward trend for all three companies over the span of 40-year period, except one company witnessed a fluctuation in its figures.
In Eldan Ltd, the percentage was stably 3% in the span of 5-years from 1975, then it skyrocketed to 64% in 2015, by approximately 20 times of the figure from 1980. Similarly, the total number of senior female managers in Bamforth Ltd soared gradually from 9% in 1975, to a fivefold number in 2015, at 46%.
In contrast, the proportion of women who hold senior management roles in Finsbury slightly dropped from 16% in 1975 to 14% in the next 5 years. By then, the figure steadily rose to 26% in 2015.
In conclusion, the number of senior women managers in three companies were low in 1975. However, all of them recorded an uptrend in their percentage after 40 years.
