For International Women’s Day this year, we are celebrating some of the female leaders in Atlantic Canada.
Women are becoming a powerful voice in the community. More support organizations are naming women as CEOs and placing them in other senior positions, and there are a growing number of female founders.
Last year, our survey revealed that 14 percent of the companies we tracked in 2019 were led by female CEOs or Co-CEOs. When we previously looked into female CEOs in 2014, we found they made up 8 percent of the community.
We don’t yet have data on women-led companies for 2020, but we are