Senior women are better represented in the FTSE 100 than their counterparts in the S&P 100, according to leadership advisory firm Russell Reynolds Associates, even though only 12 firms in the UK’S flagship index have achieved gender parity in their senior leadership teams.
Russell Reynolds Associates’s analysis found that one third, 32% of the senior executives in the FTSE 100 are women, so they are underrepresented by 61% when compared to the UK population. In terms of chief executives, men are eight times more likely to be CEO in the FTSE 100 than women, with just 11 FTSE businesses currently led by women. In addition, one quarter of FTSE 100 companies are led by C-suites with fewer than 25% women, and 13 have one or no women.
Women are especially underrepresented among the roles that matter most for CEO succession pipelines…
