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 per cent of new CEO positions, the lowest since 2011, according to a PwC study of 2,500 global public companies released on Tuesday. In the US and Canada, less than 1 per cent of new CEOs were female, the worst showing in the 16-year history of the study and the third straight annual decline.

Women run only 4.4 per cent of the Standard & Poor's 500 companies and hold about 20 per cent of board seats, up from 16 per cent five years ago, according to executive recruiter Spencer Stuart.

The US may be 40 years from gender parity on boards even if the pace of replacement doubles, according to a US Government Accountability Office report issued in January.

The results in 2015 might be blamed partly on the fact that industries with.......

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This is bad despite the preferential treatment given to them