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Study Shows The Glass Cliff For Female CEOs Isn't Real Are Not Setup to Fail www.forbes.com/sites/kimelsesser/2025/01/13/glass-cliff-for-female-ceos-study-reveals-mixed-evidence/

641 sats \ 13 comments \ @Cje95 15 Jan econ

The Glass Cliff describes a phenomenon where women are more likely to be appointed to leadership roles in times of crisis, setting them up for failure. This has long been cited as the reason for female CEO failure but the good 'ol data shows wellllll that not true.

The study, published in The Leadership Quarterly, analyzed CEO appointments in all publicly held U.S. companies listed on major exchanges from 1998 to 2022. Researchers examined data on 10,348 CEOs, including 526 women, and found that women are no more likely than men to be appointed CEOs at struggling companies. In fact, the study revealed the opposite: as a company's financial stability improves, the likelihood of a woman being appointed CEO increases

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63 sats \ 3 replies \ @kepford 15 Jan

At this point I find most of these types of theories to just be anti-women. They undercut women by setting up a false premise.

67 sats \ 2 replies \ @Cje95 OP 15 Jan

Your not wrong I mean its only further stigmatizes them and makes an issue a non issue

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @kepford 15 Jan

The right is obsessed with government conspiracy theories and the left is obsessed with social conspiracy theories.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @kepford 15 Jan

IMO most of the progressive social talking points actually do more harm than good. Sometimes they might be believed by the layperson for good reasons but not logical ones.

They often end up creating more division and do nothing to change the hearts of those with true bigotry. It has been so obvious to me over the years watching this in the tech field. In the mid 2000s most of the stuff that is today called woke was being pushed in the tech industry. I remember talking to people about it at the time and they looked at me like I was nuts. Now pretty much everyone is aware of this stuff.

63 sats \ 2 replies \ @Satosora 15 Jan

Does anyone remember Theranos and its CEO Elizabeth Holmes? Seems like she failed all on her own.

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @Cje95 OP 15 Jan

Oh man what a throwback that really wasnt all that long ago! Hell of a thing she was able to pull off for what its worth.... she fleeced really smart people for a long long time

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Satosora 15 Jan

She gave results, just not the way her company was supposed to. The next steve jobs, if I remember correctly.

96 sats \ 5 replies \ @Undisciplined 15 Jan

Wow, an implausible sounding progressive story is false. Bring me my fainting couch.

It is funny that they were able to demonstrate that the exact opposite is actually true, though.

79 sats \ 2 replies \ @SimpleStacker 15 Jan

This sounds like one of those things that they'd complain about either way.

Appoint more females during crisis = setting them up to fail!

Appoint more males during crisis = don't trust females to handle!

75 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined 15 Jan

That's why it's such a successful scam.

30 sats \ 0 replies \ @Cje95 OP 15 Jan

Yeah I mean after all guys are shown to be worse with bad companies!

30 sats \ 0 replies \ @Cje95 OP 15 Jan

Thats what made me chuckle was that men tend to get thrown to the wolves but yeah that wouldnt fit the narrative!

13 sats \ 0 replies \ @gmd 15 Jan

If you talk to any female surgeon they will tell you in residency the people that tortured them the most were usually female attending surgeons, not the oft-blamed misogyny from men...