Only one woman was named CEO of a major company in North America in 2015

by Jena McGregor washingtonpost.com Apr 21, 2016 — 

Just four percent of S&P 500 CEOs are women. Only 19 percent of those companies' board members are women. Yet even among the discouraging stats about the number of women in corporate leadership roles, this one stands out: Exactly one of the 87 new CEOs named to lead the largest public companies in the United States or Canada in 2015 was a woman, according to a new report. read more...