The increase is important, the organisation found, because 90% of the CEOs of the country’s biggest companies came up through one of those roles. Still, just two out of 17 CEO appointments in the FTSE 100 between June 2023 and June 2024 were women.
Women are increasingly being hired for the roles at companies that tend to lead to the CEO slot, but they’re still largely missing at the highest rungs of British corporations.
Women now make up 23% of chief financial officers, chief operating officers, divisional bosses or are already chief executives across the FTSE 100, according to new research by 25x25, an organisation formed to help boost the level of female talent at the top of British companies. That’s up from 16% in 2021, the group said.
