Women Get Less Than 3% of New CEO Jobs as Global Progress Stalls
- PwC study finds U.S. and Canada with worst showing in 16 years
- Female chief executives more likely to be hired from outside
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The outlook for women in the CEO chair dimmed last year.
Even with the highest turnover rate among chief executive officers in more than a dozen years, women captured less than 3 percent of new CEO positions, the lowest since 2011, according to a PwC study of 2,500 global public companies released on Tuesday. In the U.S. and Canada, less than 1 percent of new CEOs were female, the worst showing in the 16-year history of the study and the third straight annual decline.