Industry with most female leaders? Marijuana
Women still continue to earn less per hour than men for the same amount of work in America, but there is one highlight — the marijuana industry.
Marijuana Business Daily reports this October that the percentage of women executives in the cannabis industry is far higher than in all U.S. businesses as a whole.
About 36 percent of executives in the cannabis industry are women. By comparison, just 22 percent of executives in all U.S. businesses are women.
And in some sectors of the cannabis economy, women’s gains are even more stark. In the cannabis testing labs sector, women comprise 63% of executives. When it comes to cannabis processing or edibles — executives are 48 percent women. Women executives are most rare in cannabis investment sector (28%), but that’s still above the U.S. average.
By comparison, a Pew Women in Leadership study from 2015 found women are under-represented...
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