News / Get more women into air cargo: firms failing to boost diversity will lose out

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Corporate gender diversity is not about CSR programmes, it’s about business, delegates heard yesterday at the first event aiming to highlight and encourage more women in air cargo.

Just 13% of senior leaders are female, but research shows they make better leaders when scored across a variety of categories, pointed out Henrik Kofod-Hansen, co-founder of Novosensus.

Mr Kofod-Hansen, who said he never had a female boss in a 28-year logistics career, said businesses that failed to boost diversity would miss out.

“We need to ...