New 'diverse' management team at Toyota Motor has no woman

Firm to accelerate shift in EV strategy

Toyota Motor’s incoming Chief Executive Officer Koji Sato called his new management team a “diverse lineup” in terms of communication styles when explaining the carmaker’s strategy toward an electrified future. 

It wasn’t so diverse in other ways. All seven of his top deputies are men.

At Toyota, the world’s No. 1 carmaker, only one of the nine current board members is a woman — Teiko Kudo.

Toyota does at least have a woman executive in Yumi Otsuka, who is chief sustainability officer. She’s being appointed as a senior fellow from an operating officer position, according to Monday’s announcement.

Bullish on EV

Sato said he wanted