Editing Chief executive officer (section)

===Diversity===
{{Main|Gender diversity#In the boardroom}}
Lack of diversity amongst chief executives has also been a source of criticism.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.managers.org.uk/insights/news/2018/november/the-government-must-act-on-ftse-gender-stats-says-cmis-ceo|title='The government must act on ftse gender stats' says cmi's ceo|date=14 November 2018 |website=CMI |access-date=16 November 2018}}</ref> In 2018, 5% of [[Fortune 500|''Fortune'' 500]] CEOs were women.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://fortune.com/fortune500/list/filtered?ceowoman=true|title=Fortune 500|access-date=16 November 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190122214352/http://fortune.com/fortune500/list/filtered?ceowoman=true |archive-date=Jan 22, 2019 }}</ref> In 2023 the number rose to 10.4% of for [[List of women CEOs of Fortune 500 companies|Women CEO's of Fortune 500 companies]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Women CEOs run 10.4% of Fortune 500 companies. A quarter of the 52 leaders became CEO in the last year |url=https://fortune.com/2023/06/05/fortune-500-companies-2023-women-10-percent/ |access-date=2023-09-18 |website=Fortune |language=en |date=June 5, 2023 |first1=Emma |last1=Hinchliffe }}</ref> The reasons for this are explained or justified in various ways, and may include biological sex differences, male and female differences in [[Big Five personality traits]] and temperament, [[sex differences in psychology]] and interests, maternity and career breaks, [[hypergamy]], [[phallogocentrism]], the existence of [[old boy network]]s, tradition, and the lack of [[Women in business|female role models]] in that regard.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.businessinsider.com/women-leaders-have-numbers-problem-2018-6|title=A new list of the top CEOs 'for women' is mostly men — and it reflects a wider problem in business|last=Cain|first=Áine|website=Business Insider |date=Jun 19, 2018 |access-date=2019-10-13}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.fastcompany.com/90400025/these-are-the-reasons-why-we-still-dont-have-many-women-ceos|title=These are the reasons why we (still) don't have many women CEOs |first1=Michael |last1=Holmes |agency=The Conversation |date=2019-09-06|website=Fast Company|language=en-US|access-date=2019-10-13}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://hiring.monster.com/hr/hr-best-practices/workforce-management/hr-management-skills/women-ceos.aspx|title=It's 2017 – So Why Aren't there More Women CEOs?|date=28 March 2017 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210802023237/https://hiring.monster.com/employer-resources/workforce-management/leadership-management-skills/women-ceos/ |archive-date=Aug 2, 2021 |first1=John |last1=Rossheim |website=Monster for Employers |access-date=16 November 2018}}</ref> Some countries have passed laws mandating boardroom gender quotas.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/28/world/europe/28iht-quota.html?pagewanted=all|title=Getting Women Into Boardrooms, by Law|newspaper=The New York Times|date=27 January 2010|access-date=16 November 2018|last1=Clark|first1=Nicola}}</ref> In 2023 Rockefeller Foundation awarded a grant to [[Korn Ferry]] to research strategies and then action a plan to help more women to become CEO's.<ref>{{Cite news |last1=Stevenson |first1=Jane Edison |last2=Orr |first2=Evelyn |date=2017-11-08 |title=We Interviewed 57 Female CEOs to Find Out How More Women Can Get to the Top |work=Harvard Business Review |url=https://hbr.org/2017/11/we-interviewed-57-female-ceos-to-find-out-how-more-women-can-get-to-the-top |access-date=2023-09-18 |issn=0017-8012}}</ref>