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UBS Wealth Management Targets Female Clients With Five-Year Business Plan

Josh O'Neill

25 January 2017

examining the gender pay gap at an executive level showed that, outside of the US, female chief executives were still typically paid less than their male counterparts. Over the past decade, women heading up US companies, on average, were awarded higher annual total summary pay than men, but ultimately took home lower annual pay packages when gains from the vesting of stock was accounted for. 

Male CEOs in the US were given stock options more often than their female equivalents, according to MSCI's report, and the grants were also worth more on average. Calculating CEOs' pay is more complicated than it would seem due to these underlying pay packages, MSCI said.