Ellen Kullman, Meg Whitman, Mary Barra, Indra Nooyi, Marissa Mayer, Irene Rosenfeld, Sheri McCoy and Ursula Burns all have led large, publicly traded companies. Do male CEOs really outperform their female counterparts or are the women simply easy targets for investors trying to throw their weight around in search of bigger returns? “Investors perceive these women CEOs to be weaker, to be less confident, less competent, less able. However, in most cases the performances turned in by women CEOs surpassed the industry average. “To suggest that Trian targets women CEOs is tired rhetoric,” a company spokesperson said, adding that female leadership in Trian’s portfolio companies had actually grown.

Source: Taipei Times August 06, 2017 15:56 UTC