July 8, 2019 by Janet Siroto · Activism

Chief: Catering to the ‘Professional Wellness’ of Women in the C-Suite

There are plenty of women smashing glass ceilings, but where's their "good ol' boys club"? Chief, a women's business group, is helping women rise.

It’s a shocking fact that in the Fortune 500 (the traditional business power-players), only 24—or 4.8 percent—of CEOs are female. And that number actually declined over the past year! For those of us who came of age during the “bring home the bacon, fry it up in a pan,” smash-the-glass-ceiling era, it’s a disheartening moment.

But out of the disillusionment came a new group called Chief, which is dedicated to getting us closer to equilibrium at the executive level. Many of us believe that the more women who are in positions of power and influence, the closer we’ll get to true equality—and closing that pay gap!

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