Women as Public Sector Leaders 1

For the past 40 years, governments across the world have undertaken initiatives to address gender inequality in the workplace and have introduced equal opportunity legislation and created protections against discrimination. Based on the EY Worldwide Index of Women, this chapter looks at how these initiatives have affected the public sector workforce. The focus is on women across the G20 member countries where they represent almost half the public sector workforce but account for less than one of five senior public sector leaders.