CEOs: Make it a point to include girls in the old boy’s club
Whether it’s Hollywood movie studios and their paucity of female directors, the tech industry and their alarming exodus of frustrated women, or the stifling male fraternity culture that dominates Wall Street, women continue to be marginalized in the business world, excluded from the old boy’s club.
The vast majority of CEOs responding to a McKinsey survey noted that hiring females is essential to “getting the best brains.”
Sounds pretty obvious, doesn’t it?
Despite increasing awareness of this issue, meaningful change remains agonizingly slow—less than 20 of the Fortune 500 CEOs are women, and on average, they earn just 77 cents for every dollar earned by their male counterparts. (more…)
