Women Leaders Top U.S. as RBC Promotes Taylor: Corporate Canada
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Royal Bank of Canada, the nation’s largest lender by assets, extended the country’s lead in appointing women to corporate leadership roles by announcing Kathleen Taylor as its first chairwoman.
Women serve as chairman or an equivalent role in at least eight, or 3.5 percent, of the 226 publicly traded Canadian companies with a market value of $1 billion or more, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Among 3,010 global companies, at least 55 have a female in that role, or 1.8 percent. In the U.S., that figure is 1.7 percent, the data show.