While women hold about 25% of top management positions overall in US companies, but head up less than 5% of companies, the cannabis industry, the new kid on the block, boasts 63% women in top management positions, of whom 36% are the owners or heads of companies, according to a 2016 questionnaire in Marijuana Business Daily.
Compared to this, the scene in Europe is still very much a male domain, although we do not as yet have any official statistics. At cannabis trade shows or other related events, the perceived ratio of men to women is about 80 – 90% and the statistics for consumption, growing and selling show far more men than women. But the ratio of women smokers is rising steadily and it appears that women are better at managing cannabis, with female smokers being significantly less likely to develop what is referred to technically as problematic patterns of consumption.
CannaFem wants to bring women together
At the end of 2016, ambitious women from the burgeoning cannabusiness in Berlin came together to found the