Jim Fielding, Ex-Head of Disney Stores, on the Struggles of Making It as a Queer Executive

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Working–and living–inauthentically can cause stress, mental illness, or worse. According to Yahoo Finance, there are only four openly gay CEOs atop Fortune 500 companies. That’s up from zero in 2014, when Apple’s Tim Cook came out. But it represents less than 1% of the cohort, well below the 7% rate of Americans in general who identity as gay, lesbian, or bisexual. Is there a glass ceiling for gay executives? And if so, are some queer bosses still opting to stay in the closet to avoid damaging

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