--- title: Almost None of the New CEOs Hired Last Year Were Women description: A PwC study finds that only 3% of new CEOs appointed last year globally were women, and only one woman became the head of a U.S. company. authors: - name: Martha C. White role: Writer url: https://money.com/author/martha-c-white/ education: BA, English, Princeton University at_money_since: 2015 articles: 350 covers: - Career Advice - Banking - Business - Credit - Credit Cards - Debt - Economy and Politics - Education - Federal Reserve Rate Cuts - Health and Wellness - Housing - Identity Theft - Insurance - Investing - Lifestyle - Loans - Mortgages - Personal Finance - Professional Services - Retirement - Shopping - Taxes - Technology published: '2016-04-19T14:35:21.000Z' modified: '2024-04-16T10:40:35.000Z' section: Career Advice tags: - CEOs - equal pay day - female CEOs - gender wage gap - pubdesk - women candidates - Workplace word_count: 226 canonical: https://money.com/women-ceos-discrimination/ type: Article source: structured-blocks --- > **Disclosure:** We research all brands listed and may earn a fee from our partners. Research and financial considerations may influence how brands are displayed. Not all brands are included. [Learn more](https://money.com/page/disclaimer/). ![160419_CAR_WomenCEOs](https://img.money.com/2016/04/160419_car_womenceos.jpg) *Andrea Greenberg was named CEO of MSG Networks last year.* Not only do women have to contend with the [gender pay gap](https://money.com/gender-pay-gap-excuses-wrong/) at work, but workplace discrimination is apparent in the corner office, as well. Last year, female executives around the world landed a measly 3% of the new CEO positions that opened even though the chief executive turnover rate was nearly 17%, according to a PwC analysis. At companies in the U.S. and Canada, things were even worse: Women made up fewer than 1% of the new CEOs brought on last year, the lowest number in the 16 years PwC has been conducting the study. By [Bloomberg's](http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-04-18/women-get-less-than-3-of-new-ceo-jobs-as-global-progress-stalls) count, there was literally only a single woman promoted to the top spot in the entire United States last year: MSG Networks' Andrea Greenberg. What's more, the problem isn't limited to just new female CEOs. Women comprise only about one in five corporate board members, and they only run about 4% of companies in the S&P 500. “Companies need to do more than they’re doing today to get talented women to be promoted to CEO,” PwC exec DeAnne Aguirre — stating the obvious — told [Bloomberg](http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-04-18/women-get-less-than-3-of-new-ceo-jobs-as-global-progress-stalls). ***Read next:* How to Deal With Sexual Harassment At Work** Companies that had a rough year, like those in energy and materials, were more likely to replace their CEOs, but these are industries with longstanding reputations as boys' clubs, Aguirre pointed out. ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "BreadcrumbList", "@id": "https://money.com/women-ceos-discrimination/#breadcrumb", "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "name": "Home", "item": "https://money.com" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "name": "Career Advice", "item": "https://money.com/career-advice/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "name": "Salaries and Wages", "item": "https://money.com/salaries-and-wages/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "name": "Almost None of the New CEOs Hired Last Year Were Women" } ] }, { "@type": "WebSite", "@id": "https://money.com/#website", "url": "https://money.com", "name": "Money", "publisher": { "@id": "https://money.com/#organization" } }, { "@type": "WebPage", "@id": "https://money.com/women-ceos-discrimination/#webpage", "url": "https://money.com/women-ceos-discrimination/", "name": "Almost None of the New CEOs Hired Last Year Were Women", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://money.com/#website" }, "datePublished": "2016-04-19T14:35:21.000Z", "mainEntity": { "@id": "https://money.com/women-ceos-discrimination/" }, "inLanguage": "en-US", "breadcrumb": { "@id": "https://money.com/women-ceos-discrimination/#breadcrumb" }, "dateModified": "2024-04-16T10:40:35.000Z" }, { "@type": "Article", "headline": "Almost None of the New CEOs Hired Last Year Were Women", "articleSection": "Career Advice", "image": [ { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://img.money.com/2016/04/160419_car_womenceos.jpg", "width": 2100, "height": 1401, "caption": "160419_CAR_WomenCEOs" } ], "author": [ { "@type": "Person", "name": "Martha C. White", "url": "https://money.com/author/martha-c-white/", "@id": "https://money.com/author/martha-c-white/#author", "image": "https://img.money.com/2014/01/martha.png?w=350&h=430&crop=1", "jobTitle": "Writer", "alumniOf": "BA, English, Princeton University", "worksFor": { "@id": "https://money.com/#organization" } } ], "publisher": "https://money.com/#organization", "datePublished": "2016-04-19T14:35:21.000Z", "description": "A PwC study finds that only 3% of new CEOs appointed last year globally were women, and only one woman became the head of a U.S. company.", "abstract": "A PwC study finds that only 3% of new CEOs appointed last year globally were women, and only one woman became the head of a U.S. company.", "@id": "https://money.com/women-ceos-discrimination/", "inLanguage": "en-US", "dateModified": "2024-04-16T10:40:35.000Z", "wordCount": 226, "keywords": [ "CEOs", "equal pay day", "female CEOs", "gender wage gap", "pubdesk", "women candidates", "Workplace" ], "about": [ { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Career counseling", "sameAs": [ "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Career_counseling" ] }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Wages and salaries", "sameAs": [ "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wages_and_salaries" ] } ] } ] } ```