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When it comes to gender equality in senior ranks, new data indicates "we're going in the wrong direction", and "a different level of conversation" is needed, according to a leadership development expert.

The 2024 Chief Executive Women senior executive census shows that in the past 12 months, only one in eight CEO appointments in the ASX 300 were female, compared with one in four in 2023, and that only 25 of the CEOs are women.

"We've got to get under the issues and the rhetoric and into a different level of conversation about why we're still here," says Megan Dalla-Camina, whose latest book agitates for change...