- Report year:2019
- Report author: Daniel Sandberg
- Organisation: S&P Global Market Intelligence
Despite notable progress over recent years, female executives remain grossly underrepresented in the C-suite. The performance of firms that have made female appointments to their CEO and CFO positions offers evidence that female executives have outperformed, relative to their male peers. Firms with female CEOs and CFOs have produced superior stock price performance, compared to the market average.