Ceo Positions: Women and Companies

ceo positions: And if you think that's because men are more capable of running companies than women, you would be sorely mistaken and sexist to boot, according to Huffington Post Canada. Women aren't in as many leadership roles as men because fewer women apply for those positions, and a new study has delved into why. The 2016 Fortune 500 list showed that just 21 companies had women at their helm, meaning women hold a pathetic 4.2 per cent of CEO positions in the United States' 500 biggest companies. The study, titled Leaning Out How Negative Recruitment Experiences Shape Women's Decisions to Compete for Executive Roles published by Sage Journals, found that fewer women than men were applying for senior management roles, and women who had been rejected from similar jobs in the past were even less likely to apply. Glamour reports that these results say something about the huge gap in confidence between men and women, noting a 2015 study, which found that men in 48 countries had higher self-esteem than women. And although the study also found that men were also less likely to apply to jobs similar to ones they'd been rejected from, women were 1.5 times less likely to apply than men. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.