The prevalence of women in corporate leadership positions within the medical device industry remains low, and the rate of increase is stagnant despite new initiatives to increase diversity in the industry.
Just 21% of top executives at the world’s 100 world’s biggest medical device companies are women, according to an analysis of Medical Design & Outsourcing‘s annual Big 100 breakdown of the top revenue-generating medical device companies in the world.
The analysis involved seeing who shows up on the leadership pages on the corporations’ websites. While the overall number of women executives on such pages is up 1 percentage point from 2020, the average percentage of women in medtech companies’ top executive ranks remained unchanged from last year at 19%.
“The medtech workforce must mirror the patients we serve if we are going to succeed in delivering innovative technology to populations who need it,” AdvaMed chief financial officer and chief operating officer Jen Brearey told Medical Design & Outsourcing.
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