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- The average age of C-suite executives at Fortune 100 companies is 57, according to a new study.
- C-suite executives had been getting younger since 1980, but that's no longer the case.
- The new C-suite is "older, with broader industry experience and increasingly female," wrote Wharton professor Peter Cappelli.
There's a demographic shift occurring among today's top executives: they're older, and more likely to be female.
That's according to a new study by researchers at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton school and Madrid's IE University, published by the Wall Street Journal on Thursday.