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There were once more CEOs named John than women

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The corporate glass ceiling is so thick it literally prefers a specific first name over half the population. Up until the late 2010s, if you looked at the S&P 1500, the number of CEOs named John or David statistically outnumbered the total amount of female CEOs running major companies.

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