2013 chief executive study - women ceos

Women CEOs of the last 10 years

2013 Chief Executive Study

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For 14 years, Strategy& has examined CEO

turnover and the incoming class of CEOs at

the world’s largest 2,500 public companies.

This year we focused particularly on

women CEOs over the last 10 years.

Here’s what we found…

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Over the past 10 years, there have been 75% more women CEOs in the incoming than outgoing classes

Source: Strategy& 2004-2013 Chief Executive Study analysis

+75.0%

Incoming CEOsOutgoing CEOs

1.6%

2.8% by 2040 a third of the

incoming CEO class

will be made up of

women




By region, companies in the U.S. and Canada have had the highest percentage of women CEOs


2.2%

Other emerging

98.4%

1.6%

Brazil, Russia,

India

98.3%

1.7%

China

97.5%

2.5%

Other mature

97.5%

2.5%

Japan

99.2%

0.8%

Western Europe

98.6%

1.4%

U.S., Canada

96.8%

3.2%

MaleFemale

Average




By industry, the lowest percentage of women CEOs was in the materials industry


0.8%

Industrials

98.3%

1.7%

Telecom-munications

services

98.0%

2.0%

Financials

97.9%

2.1%

Energy

97.7%

2.3%

Utilities Materials

97.6%

2.4%

Consumer discretionary

97.4%

2.6%

99.2%

97.4%

2.6%

Information technology

96.9%

3.1%

Consumer staples

MaleFemale




Women CEOs are more often hired from outside the company than men CEOs


Female

65%

35%

Male

78%

22%

InsiderOutsider




Women CEOs are more often forced out of office than men


Female

51%

38%

13%11%

Male

60%

27%

M&A

PlannedForced




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