Women in Leadership: Are We at a Tipping Point?
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Women in Leadership: Are We at a Tipping Point?

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Corporate America’s boardrooms are significantly more gender diverse than its corner offices. Today, 33% of board members at S&P 500 companies are women, an 8-point increase since 2019. By contrast, just 9% of CEOs in the S&P 500 are women, up 4 points since 2019—but this may soon change.

Corporate America’s boardrooms are significantly more gender diverse than its corner offices. Today, 33% of board members at S&P 500 companies are women, an 8-point increase since 2019. By contrast, just 9% of CEOs in the S&P 500 are women, up 4 points since 2019—but this may soon change.

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S&P 500 boards that appointed a female CEO have been more gender diverse than the average S&P 500 board. If past is prologue, the fact that 33% of all S&P 500 corporate directors today are women may mean that more boards are positioned to choose a female CEO. Indeed, today’s female CEOs were appointed by a board where, on average, one-third of the directors were women. 

 

Female CEOs Tend to be Appointed by More Gender-Diverse Boards

Note: 2024 data may not yet be statistically significant.
Source: ESGAUGE / The Conference Board, 2024

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