Just how thick?is the glass ceiling in corporate America? It’s really, really thick. Like….you can’t even see through it, it’s so thick. Only one in ever 25 large companies is run by a female CEO and CEOs named John outnumber CEOs who are women.
From the New York Times:
Among chief executives of S.&P. 1500 firms, for each woman, there are four men named John, Robert, William or James. We’re calling this ratio the Glass Ceiling Index, and an index value above one means that Jims, Bobs, Jacks and Bills ? combined ? outnumber the total number of women, including every women’s name, from Abby to Zara. Thus we score chief executive officers of large firms as having an index score of 4.0.
The original data source for the New York Times article was an Ernst & Young report that computed analogous numbers for their board directors. Read more about the methodology at the New York Times.
