Women lose ground in ASX executive teams as new CEW report warns of growing backlash to gender equity

Key points

• Women's share of executive leadership roles at Australia's largest listed companies has fallen for the first time in a decade, according to a new Chief Executive Women census.
• The share of women in ASX 200 executive roles slipped from 32 to 31 per cent over the past year, and the number of ASX 300 companies with no women on their executive teams rose from 17 to 25.
• Women received just 13 per cent of ASX 300 chief executive appointments this year.