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- Emma Walmsley is the highest paid CEO in the FTSE 100 index
GSK CEO Emma Walmsley is once again the highest-paid CEO in the FTSE 100 index
Women could finally be on the verge of breaking the FTSE 100’s glass ceiling, a Mail on Sunday investigation suggests.
The number of female CEOs is currently ten and has remained stubbornly low for several years.
Yet women hold top financial roles in almost a quarter of the UK’s blue-chip companies.
Since the job of CFO is often a prelude to a promotion to a CEO position, either at the same company or another, this suggests that women are poised for a breakthrough.
There are now two dozen female CFOs in the FTSE 100, up from 15 in 2019.
The highest-paid female account director is Julie Brown, who earned £4.8m at pharmaceutical giant GSK.
Her boss, Emma Walmsley, is once again the highest-paid CEO in the FTSE 100.
Brown’s rival AstraZeneca, Aradhana Sarin, was not far behind on £4.4m. Sinead Gorman, of oil giant Shell, and Helen McCabe, of aerospace engineering firm Rolls-Royce, both earned just under £4m.
The proportion of senior roles held by women in the broader FTSE 350 index has risen to a record 42 per cent, up from just under a quarter in 2017, according to a report by the FTSE Women Leaders Review.
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