Even though more women have risen to the C-suite at large corporations in recent years, women are still promoted less often than men to the highest jobs. One of the main reasons women are less likely than men to be promoted to CEO boils down to unconscious bias, and it manifests itself in a number of noteworthy ways.
As research and strategy development nonprofit Catalyst reports, women currently hold only 30 — or 6% — of CEO positions at S&P 500 companies.
