Board Experience is Helping More Women Get CEO Jobs

(Pulished in Harvard Business Review, September 2019)

The news about U.S. women’s presence in the C-suite — and especially the CEO job — has been pretty bleak. Nationwide, fewer than 5% of CEOs of public companies are women. In the Fortune 500, that number fell by 25% from 2017 to 2018, dipping from 32 (6.4%) to 24 (4.8%), before rising back in 2019.

Yet, results from a study we conducted recently suggests that this decades-old problem of stagnant growth may soon turn around.