CEO Gender and Corporate Board Structures
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-10-2018
Publication Title
Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation
SSRN
3084643
Abstract
In our article, CEO Gender and Corporate Board Structure (forthcoming in the Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance), we investigate the relationship between the gender of the CEO and corporate board structures. In recent years, women have made strides in cracking the glass ceiling in leadership positions in corporate America. Female CEOs have been appointed not only in female-friendly industries such as healthcare and consumer products but also in fields that are traditionally dominated by their male counterparts such as energy, utilities or automotive. The number of female CEOs leading S&P 500 companies reached a record high in 2016 with 27 women at the helm of these firms. However, women CEOs only make up 5.4% of the total S&P 500 CEO positions.
Recommended Citation
Frye, Melissa B., Duong Pham.
2018.
"CEO Gender and Corporate Board Structures."
Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation: Harvard University Press.
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/finance-facpubs/13
