If a company promotes female executives faster than males, there are usually only two situations: either she is the founder's wife, or she is no longer a traditional woman.

The female director we recruited last year, thirty-six years old, short hair, never smiles during meetings.
On my first day reporting, she was in her office reprimanding an old employee, her voice coming through two glass doors: "Your OKRs this month are the worst I've ever seen, bar none."
That old employee is not much younger than my dad, bowing his head, rubbing his fingers on his knees.
Later I found out she arrives at the company at 7 a.m. every day and is still approving things at 11 p.m.
She raised the department’s performance from second to last to first in the entire company.
On the annual meeting day, she wore a dress, and everyone was surprised she even had a dress.
She held a glass of red wine and said a sentence I still can't forget: "Colleagues here, you can have both career and family at the same time, but I can only choose one.
It's not that I chose career; after choosing it, I found that the other option was left for no one."
She has been divorced for several years.
Her ex-husband thought she was neglecting the family and took the child away.
After work on Friday, she drove two hours to her ex-husband’s neighborhood, looked at her son’s room light downstairs for a while, then drove back.
This was secretly told to me by the administrative sister.
She said, don’t think she’s so fierce; the only photo on her desk is a drawing of a sunflower her son made when he was three.
Later, a sentence she said was circulated in the department for a long time: "You all say I look like a man. Actually, I just hide that feminine side. Because here, soft things don’t last long."
Last month, she changed jobs.
The new company gave her a partner title.
Before leaving, she called me into her office, closed the door, and said something that I still think about:
"You are the youngest in our department. Before I leave, I’ll give you an honest piece of advice—don’t follow my example.
You still have the chance to have both."
To this day, I still don’t understand whether she meant for me to listen or not listen when she said that.