There Are 316 Men Leading Commodity Houses and Only 14 Women
- Commodity industry lags finance, business in gender equality
- Glencore, Vitol, Trafigura have no women in senior roles
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In the top echelons of leadership at the world’s biggest commodity traders, less than 5 percent are women.
It’s a statistic that shows gender inequality in a $2 trillion business that buys, sells and transports everything from oil to sugar to copper, supplying the global economy with raw materials. Some of the industry’s titans -- Glencore Plc, Vitol Group and Trafigura Group -- have no women in senior executive roles.