Female chief executives were either fired or quit at a record rate last year, with observers blaming “tall poppy syndrome” as critics attack successful women.
Leading the charge or lagging behind?
8th March 2021
| By Joanne Christie
To coincide with International Women’s Day, Joanne Christie takes stock of where the industry is at in terms of gender diversity and looks at what more needs to be done.
If one looked solely at the industry news related to appointments this year, they might come to the conclusion that the gaming industry is an industry with reasonable gender diversity.
Within the space of one week in late January, there were three female CEO appointments, including the first ever female CEO of a listed British gaming company in Entain’s Jette Nygaard-Andersen.