More women in executive positions

Every fifth CEO in Poland was female in 2014, according to Bisnode Polska, a provider of business information. The number of women in executive positions increased to 33,600 in the last year from 29,500 in 2013. The biggest chance to meet a female CEO is in the accountancy and audit sector, where as many as 1,723 women are in leadership positions. More than 1,200 women are CEOs of construction companies. According to Tomasz Starzyk from Bisnode, it is not important in which sectors women are leaders. "It takes a set of certain skills to be a good manager, such as ability to negotiate, resolve conflicts and to organize working time. And women can do that." At the end of 2014, more than one million women were running a company or were the shareholder of a firm. Every year the figure increases by 1 percent, which means that some 10,000 more women are involved in managing a company annually.