Jun 15, 2021 · The ecosystem should celebrate female or male founders having families and discourage the narrative of the sleep-deprived, over-worked founders as the only way to success. Finally, we need more women in partner positions in VC firms to create a more balanced investment community that is attractive and welcoming to female founders too.”

Apr 27, 2015 · As a result, female CEOs reduce the gender wage gap at the top and widen it at the bottom of the wage distribution, with essentially no effect on the average. Figure 1. Coefficients of female CEO dummy on average wages by quantile of the female and male wage distributions. The estimated effects are reported in Figure 1.

Jul 13, 2022 · Industries with already high female representation still show a gender gap between the overall female representation across all roles and the representation of women in leadership. For example, women make up 62% of total workforce share in the Personal Services and Wellbeing industry, but only 45% of leadership share.

Jul 30, 2021 · However, the results are mixed. The analysis of 2017-2018 S&P 1500 data showed that an average CEO earned 202 times the pay of a median worker, while a female CEO stood at 374 times, and a minority CEO at 173 times (see figure above). The difference between CEO-to-employee pay ratio for minority and majority CEO is not statistically significant.

Dec 3, 2020 · Ireland has the highest percentage of female CEOs (15%) and Brazil the lowest (0%). Report is further evidence of the pandemic’s impact on women. The world’s biggest companies have been recruiting fewer women to chief executive roles since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to new research.

Mar 10, 2022 · 2022 is seeing a new record of female CEOs at Fortune 500 companies. As of March, there were 74 female CEOs employed at America's 500 highest-grossing companies, up from 41 in June of 2021 and only 7 in 2002. Yet, the new high still only translates to around 15 percent female representation at the top of the country's biggest public businesses.

Mar 3, 2020 · Beyond business, female leaders from across generations are working together to find new solutions to the world's biggest problems; The tech sector must attract more women to unlock the potential of the Fourth Industrial Revolution and ensure technology is developed from a balanced perspective.

Sep 5, 2018 · Approximately half are female and the rest are males matched to the female CEOs according to the year of CEO appointment, the industry, and the size of the firm they manage. We base our analysis on the widely discussed “glass cliff phenomenon” , which holds that women are appointed as leaders primarily when there is a high risk of ...

Dec 21, 2018 · Female CEOs are about 45% more likely than male CEOs to be dismissed from their own companies, according to a study by the University of Alabama. And, strangely, while improved organizational performance may protect a male CEO from being fired, the same does not hold true for women.

Mar 7, 2022 · Maggie Louie – CEO and Co-Founder, otto JavaScript Security When I started the company in 2017 – well before COVID was on anyone’s mind – I knew very little about the start-up world. I had the good fortune of figuring out a clever way to detect hackers exploiting digital ads to spread malware and steal money, but turning that idea into ...