Gender in the Executive Suite

Analysis Overview / Methodology

ZoomInfo is a business information search engine used by business professionals to quickly find information about industries, companies, people, products and services. ZoomInfo's semantic search engine continually crawls the Business Web - the millions of company Websites, news feeds and other online sources - to identify company and people information which is then organized into fresh, comprehensive and objective profiles.

The data in this ZoomInfo InSite Report is based on the nearly 36 million profiles of people and 3.8 million profiles of companies created by ZoomInfo's search engine. ZoomInfo compiles its information automatically, and categorizes companies into industries and market segments using semantic technology.

This patented technology intelligently understands that companies often fall into more than one industry (for example, General Electric is included in both the aerospace and the manufacturing industries). As such, some companies are represented in more than one industry in this report.

Figure 1 provides a snapshot of the private and public companies within each selected industry analyzed for this report. Within this sample-set:

  • The greatest number of companies, and subsequently the greatest number of people, falls into the non-profit segment, while the aerospace, automotive and semiconductor industries have the fewest companies and professionals.
  • The manufacturing industry contains 35% of the public companies represented in the report, with finance, healthcare and software ranking second through fourth. Given that these companies are typically much larger than their private counter parts, those industries naturally have a higher number of c- and VP-level professionals.
  • The most balanced population of men and women can be found in the non-profit industry, closely followed by the healthcare and real estate industries

Figure 1: Aggregate Analysis of Gender by Industry

Industry

Private
Companies

Public
Companies

% Male

% Female

Aerospace

2,377

123

80.87%

19.13%

Automotive

2,718

82

82.94%

17.06%

Construction

31,609

91

80.27%

19.73%

Finance

60,748

1,452

69.93%

30.07%

Healthcare

51,747

1,053

56.72%

43.28%

Insurance

30,097

303

58.63%

41.37%

Law Firms & Legal Services

30,388

12

65.48%

34.52%

Manufacturing

107,000

3,100

73.80%

26.20%

Non-Profit

302,200

n/a

54.87%

45.13%

Pharmaceutical

7,004

796

77.19%

22.81%

Real Estate

70,771

429

56.93%

43.07%

Semiconductor

2,712

288

81.99%

18.01%

Software

63,051

1,049

72.29%

27.71%

Figure 1 shows the total number of private and public companies used in this ZoomInfo InSite report in each of the 13 industries. Within each industry, it also provides the overall percent of men and women, across all titles.


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