{"id":604273,"date":"2023-09-18T09:38:37","date_gmt":"2023-09-18T04:08:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=604273"},"modified":"2023-09-18T10:49:41","modified_gmt":"2023-09-18T05:19:41","slug":"bp-ceo-search-is-big-oils-best-chance-to-fix-its-gender-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/bp-ceo-search-is-big-oils-best-chance-to-fix-its-gender-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"BP CEO search is big oil&#8217;s best chance to fix its gender problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Titans of the oil and gas world like Exxon Mobil, Chevron, Shell, and BP have successfully adapted to countless societal changes over the last century &#8211; war, nationalisations, even the climate movement. But a major hurdle remains: Big oil has yet to appoint its first-ever female chief executive &#8211; something BP could soon change.<\/p>\n<p>This week, the 114-year old British oil company parted ways with its CEO Bernard Looney after multiple investigations found he failed to disclose several workplace relationships. What the board knew and when remains unclear.<\/p>\n<p>Appointing a female CEO would send a clear message that the clubby era of petro-masculinity could finally be coming to an end. But doing so will require bucking more than a century of precedent:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Titans of the oil and gas world like Exxon Mobil, Chevron, Shell, and BP have successfully adapted to countless societal changes over the last century &#8211; war, nationalisations, even the climate movement. But a major hurdle remains: Big oil has yet to appoint its first-ever female chief executive &#8211; something BP could soon change. This week, the 114-year old British oil company parted ways with its CEO Bernard Looney after multiple investigations found he failed to disclose several workplace relationships. What the board knew and when remains unclear. Appointing a female CEO would send a clear message that the clubby [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,191,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-604273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=604273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}