Want Gender Balance? Appoint a Woman CEO!
Comparing companies run by progressive men with companies run by women
Do women promote women more? We compare companies run by men (who also happen to be publicly supportive of gender balance) and companies run by women. In general, women CEOs do seem to promote more women to their senior leadership teams. Though since we last updated this list (December 2009) we discovered that both Pepsi Co and Sara Lee had two fewer women executives. However, there were increases at TJX (from 1 to 3) and Reynolds American (from 2 to 4). There were also increases of one at Sunoco and Xerox. (More on Women Fortune 500 CEOs).
None of the companies run by men increased the number of women executives on their leadership teams and four of them (Cadbury, Telefonica, National Grid, and Shell) had no women at all on their Executive Committees in November 2009.
Co's run by Progressive Men |
Number of women on Board |
Number of women on Executive Committee |
Co's run by Women CEOs |
Number of women on Board |
Number of women on Executive Committee |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Cadbury |
1 |
0 |
WellPoint |
6 |
4 |
Centrica |
2 |
2 |
Archer Daniels Midland |
3 |
3 |
Telefonica |
1 |
0 |
Sunoco |
3 |
4 |
United Utilities |
1 |
2 |
PepsiCo |
3 |
1 |
Tate & Lyle |
1 |
0 |
Kraft Foods |
4 |
4 |
Thomson Reuters |
1 |
1 |
TJX Companies |
3 |
3 |
J Sainsbury |
3 |
3 |
Rite Aid |
1 |
2 |
Sodexo |
4 |
2 |
Xerox |
4 |
8 |
BP |
2 |
1 |
Sara Lee |
3 |
1 |
National Grid |
3 |
0 |
Avon Products |
5 |
4 |
BAE Systems |
0 |
1 |
Reynolds American |
3 |
4 |
Shell (Global) |
1 |
0 |
Western Union Holdings |
3 |
6 |
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