Why So Few Women CEOs?
Harvard Business Review is the latest organization to weigh in on this question -- this week they ranked the leaders of the top 100 performing companies and found that only one of them, former eBay CEO Meg Whitman, who's now a candidate for governor of California, is female. Of the top 2,000 CEOs, 29 were women -- about 1.5%. My daughter, who's in another male-dominated profession, science, says there are probably templates for articles like this -- women don't get enough flexibility for family time, etc. But Harvard offered some interesting specific reasons for why women struggle to make it to the top of companies.
24 December 2009•1 min read
