Stellantis is drowning, bleeding, and burning. And pushing women out of the lifeboats
When the sun was shining, Stellantis couldn’t stop talking about diversity. A quarter of leadership seats were held by women in 2022, climbing to nearly a third by 2024, a number they loved putting in every press release, every glossy sustainability report. In 2023, for the first time, a woman took the CFO seat. A milestone. Or so we were led to believe.
Fast forward to today: the crisis hits, and suddenly the story changes. That CFO lasts less than eighteen months. She’s replaced by a man. He doesn’t last long either. Another man steps in. When the new CEO announced his handpicked leadership team in 2025, only two out of thirteen seats went to women. Two. The room that used to preach about “empowering women” now looks almost exactly like it did a decade ago, full of the same suits, the same deep voices, the same certainties that helped sink the ship in the first place.
And I have to ask, plainly: would we be this deep in the hole if more women were at the decision-making table? This isn’t wishful thinking, it isn’t empty talk. Study after study shows diverse leadership means sharper risk assessment, more balanced decisions, more resilient companies. So why, exactly when the company needs clear heads and different perspectives the most, is the circle of power shrinking back down to one gender?
This isn’t just a diversity failure. This is Stellantis shooting itself in the foot again. Drowning, bleeding, and burning, all at once. And the people who might actually help steer this ship back to the surface? They’re being shown the door, one by one.