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Business columnist and recreational social theoretician Gene Marks recently posted an article article on Forbes' website titled, "Why Most Women Will Never Become CEO," which is sort of like writing an article titled, "Why Most People Named Gene Will Never Become CEO." What Marks means, and what he writes about in the body of his article, is that most CEOs won't be women, which is true even in the wake of Ginni Rometty and Meg Whitman's recent promotions — according to USA Today, of the 3,409 publicly traded companies analyzed in a recent survey, only 98 of them were lead by female chief executive officers. For anybody who's nodding and muttering, "Well 98 seems pretty m'ok," that's just 3.2 %. More »
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Some of the most successful women grew up playing sports. So do girls need athletics to get ahead? More »
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A new study finds that female executives are perceived as more competent than men — but only if they're at the top of their field. One explanation: women are seen as having to work harder to succeed. [Daily Mail] More »
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Girl Power: This WSJ video takes a look at Camp CEO, a program in Indiana that matches teenage Girl Scouts with female CEOs who mentor them and help them decide what career path they want to follow. [Wall Street Journal] More »
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She doesn't live her life in the public eye or weep attractively on MTV, but Indra Nooyi is worth knowing about: She's the highest-paid female CEO in America. Ms. Nooyi, head of PepsiCo, took home a whopping $12.7 million (including $4.5 million in bonus pay) last year. It's serious cash, for sure. But it's one-fourteenth of how much Larry Ellison, head of Oracle, pulled in last year. His salary was a "modest" $1 million, but he had $182 million from vested stock options. A lesson: When you run one of the largest companies in the world, you don't make as much as the next guy… if you're a woman. More »
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