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亚洲女性为何更难晋升高层？ Asias women face more barriers than those in the West in penetrating the top ranks of corporate management, contributing to a shortage of talent that threatens to stifle the regions economic growth, according to a report to be released Monday.The survey of 1,500 senior managers and research of 744 exchange-listed companies across the region by McKinsey Co., a management consulting firm, suggests that increasing the number of women in high-level positions can improve companies financial performance and countries economic expansion. The research among the first to look at the mix of women on corporate boards and executive committees across 10 Asia-Pacific markets has implications for the fast-growing regions companies, many of which are struggling to recruit the high-level managers they need to expand.Asian companies with the highest proportion of women on executive committees posted an average return on equity, a closely watched metric among investors and analysts, of 22% between 2007 and 2009, compared with 15% for those with no women on their executive committee, McKinseys analysis shows.Women tend to be stronger in terms of collaboration and people development, while men tend to be stronger in individual decision making, says Wang Jin, a Shanghai-based principal at McKinsey who helped author the report. By having more women at the senior level, companies are helping to improve organizational health as well as financial performance.Currently, the percentage of women on corporate boards and executive committees in Asian countries severely lags behind the West. Women accounted for only 6% of seats on corporate boards in the markets studied, compared with 17% in Europe and 15% in the U.S. In 2008, Japanese company Nissan promoted Fumiko Hayashi to head of auto sales. Ms. Hayashi, now the mayor of Yokohama, is one of the few women in Japan to make it to that level.In Asia, theres a much stronger barrier in terms of the expectation that women ha