Companies’ efforts to get more women into the C-suite are barely moving the needle. Even with the number of women at the helm of Fortune 500 companies at an all-time high of 41, these women make up only 8.2% of that cohort’s CEO total.
And outside the world’s largest companies, the situation is not much better. In the 2021 YPO Global Gender Equality Survey, 47% of female chief executives at companies with revenue between $10 million and $1 billion said cultural expectations for their gender were an obstacle, compared to fewer than 2% of males.
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