The report measured C-suite executive turnover from Fortune 500 and S&P 500 companies and contains data through Aug. 1. Of the 671 companies studied, 10.1% were in healthcare.
Of the organizations studied, 9.4% had female CEOs in 2024. This is compared to 4.9% of the companies in 2014.
The percentage of organizations with women as CEOs has increased each year since 2019, from 6.1% then to 8.5% in 2023.
Among the healthcare organizations studied, there was one female CEO appointment in 2014 and five in 2024, according to the report. The consumer industry had the most appointments, with eight in 2014 and 14 in 2024.
When looking at the executive teams as a whole, there are more female executive leaders than ever, according to a September report from LinkedIn that used data from its 1 billion worldwide profiles. It found that 38.5% of executives in 2023 were women, compared to 34.8% in 2018.
Although the healthcare sector has the fewest women serving as CEOs among the other industries studied in the Crist Kolder report, in one 2021 study, women were found to have made up 15.3% of health system CEOs.
Becker’s also recently has reported on notable CEO appointments among women at hospitals and health systems.
Lisa Lovelace was named the first female CEO of Vitruvian Health-Bradley Medical Center in Cleveland, Tenn. in August. Beth Walker also made history at her facility as the first female CEO of Ochsner Medical Center-New Orleans.
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