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Grant Thornton’s Women in Business Report 2025 highlights the gender leadership gap and urges Curaçao businesses to take action toward achieving gender parity.

This publication is designed to give preparers and reviewers of IFRS financial statements a high-level awareness of recent changes to International Financial Reporting Standards. It covers both new Standards and Interpretations that have been issued and amendments made to existing ones.

Morally and ethically, pushing for parity between women and men in senior business positions is clearly the right thing to do. What also makes the benefits of gender parity compelling is the impact it can have on the commercial performance of businesses — diversity and inclusion can make companies more profitable, innovative and respected.

Although positive, progress is slow. This year, women in mid-market companies hold 32.4% of senior management positions, up 0.5pp from last year’s 31.9%.

Grant Thornton research reveals big increases in the percentage of women occupying chief executive officer (CEO), managing director (MD), and chief information officer (CIO) positions.

Five recommendations to push for parity, and accelerate progress.

In businesses adopting a hybrid model, with a defined mix of onsite and remote working, there are higher levels of women in senior management.

Progress on the overall number of women in senior leadership continues, but it’s concerningly slow.