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title: Gender diversity text: number of Female CEO’s with the FTSE 100 also rose between 2014 and 2015 also increased. In Spring 2014 the report showed there were 4 female CEOs in the FTSE 100, this increase to 5 by Spring 2015. By 2017, the number of female CEOs among Fortune 500 companies numbered 32 (~6%). Female Chief Financial Officers Female CFO’s in the FTSE 100 saw the highest increase. In Spring 2014 there were 8 female CFO’s in the FTSE 100, this rose to 12 by Spring 2015. Although rather than 100 companies, this figure was out of 99 due to one company title: Joey Wat text: Joey Wat Joey Chui Yung Wat (; born c. 1971) is a business executive and Chief Executive Officer of Yum China Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: YUMC). She has served as a member of Yum China’s board of directors since July 2017. Prior to that, she served as president and chief operating officer at Yum China. She also served as CEO of KFC China, managing director of A.S. Watson Group UK, and spent seven years in management consulting, including at McKinsey & Company in Hong Kong. As of May 2018, she is one of only 25 female CEOs on the Fortune 500. title: Ilene S. Gordon text: Ilene S. Gordon Ilene S. Gordon (born in 1953) is an American business executive. She became CEO, president, and chairman of Ingredion (formerly Corn Products International) in May, 2009 and became the 21st female CEO of a Fortune 500 company when Ingredion’s sales reached $6 billion for the first time, in 2012. As of 2014 she was one of only 24 women who were CEOs of Fortune 500 companies. She retired from the position in 2017. Gordon earned her Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1975, graduating Phi Beta Kappa, and a Master title: Women in business text: spot as market share holder with its Document Technology business. As of 2016, women only account for only 20% of all S&P 500 directors despite making up 47% of the U.S. workforce and controlling about 75% of household spending and more than 50% of personal wealth in the U.S. There are around 2 women per board, with the average S&P 500 board consisting of 11 members. As of 2014, females make up only 14.6% percent of executive officers and 4.6% of fortune 500 CEOs. In 2015, women held 17.9% of the board seats on Fortune 1000 companies, showing the disproportionate title: Women in business text: gender representation on corporate boards of directors. While the number of women on Fortune 500 corporate boards continues to rise, the average rate of increase is only one-half of one percent per year. One in nine in the Fortune 500 list still doesn't have any women on their board. As of 2014, nearly 60% of 22,000 global firms had no female board members, a little over half had no female C-suite executives, and less than 5% had a female CEO. However, there is substantial variation amongst different countries: Norway, Latvia, Bulgaria, and Slovenia had at least 20% female representation in