Wednesday, September 2, 2015

Female CEOs Find Stock-Based Pay Harder to Get, Easier to Lose

An excerpt:
Analysis of S&P500 compensation data from 1992 to 2005, has found that for female executives stock-based pay is harder to get, and easier to lose. While a 1% increase in firm value results in a 44% increase in firm-specific wealth for male execs, that increase is just 13% for female execs. Conversely, a 1% decline in firm value results in a 33% decline in firm-specific wealth for men and a 63% decline for women.
Read more in HBR.

Why Women Aren’t C.E.O.s, According to Women Who Almost Were

"It’s not a pipeline problem. It’s about loneliness, competition and deeply rooted barriers." Read more in the NYT .