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Currently, all chief executive positions are held by men at Tesla, and out of more than 30 vice-presidents, only two are women, she added.

“It’s shocking in this day and age that this is still a fight we have to have.” - Isn't this simple probability or law of numbers because your company has less female employees. I work in a tech company which has healthy amount of female employees and guess what we have lots of female executives too.

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Women are promoted into management at much lower rates then men are in many industries, which ends up in underrepresentation at the highest levels.

https://www.ellevatenetwork.com/articles/7823-lecturing-men-...

Women also apply for management at lower rates, though. The whole ecosystem is unbalanced and not in their favor.

I wonder if flatter organizations with broader company decisions made through collaborative online discussion (ie. not face to face) would help? Obviously someone still has to make the call, but at least it lets people put their reasoning out there without dealing with the inefficiencies of meetings and the unequal opportunity they tend to entail for input.

This doesn't have to do with anyone trying to keep women down.

It's a biology thing related to men having more testosterone and being more prone to pursuing promotions due to being more aggressive.

It's like punishing the teacher for only calling upon the people who raise their hands.

It difficult to determine causality in these scenarios. Does your company have more female employees because female executives have created a less misogynistic, more welcoming culture? Or does it have more female execs because it has more female employees?

While this is a complicated issue and there is no clear smoking gun, I believe the comment is more for the sensationalism of the article.

We do not know, at least from the article, why there are only two women VPs. Could be a number of reasons.

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