In a country where the gender pay gap sits at roughly 20% and the percentage of female CEOs running Fortune 500 companies is just 7.4%, women appear to have a long way to go in terms of true gender equality in the workplace.
However, some CEOs are leading the charge in terms of opportunities for female employees.
Comparably released its annual list of CEOs of small and mid-size companies who were highly ranked by female employees. Employees anonymously ranked their CEOs on Comparably.com over the span of 12 months, from June 2019 to June 2020. Every company on this list has 500 employees or fewer, and every CEO on the list has a top 5% approval rating by female employees.
Only one CEO on the list has won the top approval of their company's female employees three years in a row: David Cancel of Drift. Only five female CEOs appear on the list: Carbon's Ellen Kullman, Contentstack's Neha Sampat, HG Insight's Elizabeth Cholawsky, NEXT Trucking's Lidia Yan, and PACE Staffing Network's Jeanne Knutzen.
Here are the best CEOs of small companies, according to female employees.
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