Catalyst
http://www.catalystwomen.org
Contact Information:
120 Wall Street, 5th Floor
New York, NY 10005
Phone: 212-514-7600
Fax: 212-514-8470
E-mail: info@catalystwomen.org
CENTER DESCRIPTION
Catalyst is a nonprofit research and advisory organization that works to
advance women in business. Our dual mission:
to enable women to achieve their full professional potential and to help
employers capitalize fully on women’s talents and abilities. Catalyst conducts research on issues on
importance to women and work; offers advisory and consultation services;
sponsors a speaker’s bureau; and houses an information center.
AREA(S) OF EXPERTISE
Business; corporate women; leadership and leadership development; statistics on working women; quality of life; women of color; work/life balance.
RECENT PROJECTS AND ACTIVITIES
· Leadership and Leadership Development
Women's Leadership
Development. Catalyst has conducted national studies on women's
leadership that have generated new insights into the progress women have made;
the barriers they face; strategies to improve women's advancement; and issues
specific to various industries and professions. Reports include, but are not
limited to, the following: women scientists; census of corporate top officers
and earners; census of female board directors; and women of color in corporate
management.
Women in Corporate Leadership: A European Business Imperative.
Catalyst and the Conference Board Europe released their first-ever joint study
of women and men leading major corporations and firms in Europe. The research
was featured at a two-day conference held on Tuesday, June 18th and Wednesday,
June 19th. int hie ground-breaking study, Catalyst and the Conference Board
Europe surveyed nearly 700 women and men in 20 European countries to determine
the success factors and barriers for women in business and identify company
initatives that advance women.
Leadership Careers in High Tech: Wired for Success. High
tech companies make up an exciting, evolving, and still relatively new
industry-one that has changed the way we look at work and careers and indeed
all of our lives. This study provides young women in high tech with an
easy-to-use road map that they can use to shape their own careers. Though
initially intdended for women, this road map is useful for anyone interested in
puruing a career in high tech.
The Next Generation: Today's Professionals, Tomorrow's Leaders. This study examines the generation of men and women born between 1964 and 1975 who are now employed in corporations and professional firms. We hear frequently from leaders in the business community how different this generation seems to be and yet how little is known about them. Our goal is to understand more clearly these women and men and their current attitudes toward work and the balance between work and personal life.
· Science and Technology
Women in Science. Catalyst reports explore issues of recruitment and retention of women scientists in both academia and the scientific profession.
· Women of Color -- Employment Issues
Women of Color in Corporate
Management. Catalyst recently held a press breakfast devoted to the
topic of women of color in corporate management to highlight the findings of a
multi-year, multi-phase research project undertaken by Sheila Wellington. The
project concentrates on opportunities and barriers for women of color in
managerial roles.
Women of Color: Three Years Later. Now, more than ever,
women of color are taking charge of their careers. Building on its
groundbreaking research on women of color in corporate management, Catalyst
tracked a core group of women of color managers over the past three years to
ascertain their career movement and determine the factors behind it. Although
current job and career satisfaction is high, these women report a decline in
opportunities to advance to senior leadership and are less satisfied with their
prospects for further advancement at their current employer.
· Work and Family
Workplace Flexibility and Family Support. Catalyst also completes research on workplace flexibility and family support to highlight the work-family barriers faced by women and the support they need to maintain their professional advancement. Research has also been done on what strategies work most effectively to implement this support.
PUBLICATIONS
· Business
Advancing Women in Business: The Catalyst Guide to Best Practices from the Corporate Leaders (1998).
Women in Financial
Services: The Word on the Street. This report on women in
financial services shedes light on experiences, perceptions, and attitutudes of
women in the industry and how they compare to those of male colleagues.
Women in Law: Making the Case. Catalyst's pioneering study
of men's and women's career paths in the legal profession, Women in Law
explores the obstascles to women's full integration into the legal profession.
The report offers recommendations for legal employers on how to achieve
strategic goals by retaining and developing women.
· Child Care
Child Care Centers: Quality
Indicators (1993). A guide for assessing a child care center by
adult-child ratios, group sizes, staff qualifications, the work environment,
cost, and utilization.
Child Care in Corporate America: Model Programs (1993). An
analysis of corporate-sponsored child care, issues pertaining to quality, a
discussion with experts, and six model programs.
· Corporate Women -- Employment Issues
Cracking the Glass Ceiling:
Strategies for Success (1999). Case studies on how major corporations
remove glass ceiling barriers.
Catalyst Census of Women Directors of the Fortune 500 (1998).
Published annually since 1993, it lists the women who serve on Fortune 500
boards and how many women are on each company's board.
Catalyst Census of Women Corporate Officers and Top Earners
(1998). An annual census showing how women rank among the highest paid
executives, which companies and industries have the most female officers, and
which states have the highest concentration of women at the top.
Closing the Gap: Women's Advancement in Corporate and Professional Canada
(1998). Based on a survey of more than 400 high-level women and nearly 200
chief executives in Canada's largest corporations and professional firms, this
study includes the varying perspectives of senior women and chief executives on
what holds women back from the top.
Women in Corporate Leadership: Progress and Prospects (1996). A
survey of top women managers offering testimony from the women who have made
it, as well as the views of Fortune 1000 CEOs.
Knowing the Territory: Women in Sales (1995). Sales
representatives, human resources professionals, and sales managers from major
American companies discuss what sales organizations can do to attract, retain,
and advance women.
The CEO View: Women on Corporate Boards (1995). America's Fortune
1000 CEOs discuss what they expect from female directors and offer insight into
the written and unwritten criteria for board nomination.
Women on Corporate Boards: The Challenge of Change (1993). A
report about female directors' backgrounds, their expectations of and
experience on corporate boards, their feelings about advocacy for women's
issues, and the ways in which they relate to female employees of companies on
whose boards they serve.
Mentoring: A Guide to Corporate Programs and Practices (1993). A
report describing how to identify and advance high-potential women, recruit and
train new employees, and avoid common problems.
Creating Successful Mentoring
Programs: A Catalyst Guide. This guide teaches you how to identify
and advance high-potential women, recruit and train new employees, and avoid
common pitfalls of formal mentoring programs. This recently updated report
takes you step-by-step through implementing a formal mentoring program.
Women in Corporate Management: Model Programs for Development and
Mobility (1991). A report on 17 Fortune 500 companies with exemplary
programs for women and why these initiatives are successful.
Creating Women's Networks: A How-To Guide for Women and Companies.
A guide to starting and sustaining women's workplace networks based on
Catalyst's work.
On The Line: Women's Career Advancement. A report outlining
barriers women face and recommending strategies for overcoming them, including
examples of America's newest and most creative policies for helping women
advance.
· Entrepreneurship
Women Entrepreneurs: Why Companies Lose Female Talent and What They Can Do About It (1998). A joint project with the National Foundation for Women Business Owners and The Committee of 200, it discusses the fact that women are starting new businesses at twice the rate of men.
· Feminist Thought and Scholarship
The Catalyst Award: Setting the Standard for Women's Advancement. Details Catalyst Award winning initiatives from 1987 to 1997.
· Science and Technology
Women in Engineering: An
Untapped Resource (1992). Recommendations of what companies can do to
attract, retain, and advance women engineers, including initiatives that
address barriers, perceptions of male counterparts, and job satisfaction.
Women Scientists in Industry: A Winning Formula for Companies. A
study identifying factors in the corporate culture that contribute to or impede
the career advancement of women scientists.
· Women of Color -- Corporate Women
Women of Color in Corporate
Management: Opportunities and Barriers (1999). The third part of the
study that looks at women of color's expectations, experiences, and perceptions
of corporate culture and how they affect the women's job satisfaction,
organizational commitment, and intent to stay with the company.
Women of Color in Corporate Management: Dynamics of Career Advancement
(1998). A discussion of what African-American, Asian-American, and Latina women
perceive as barriers to advancement in corporate America. Read Catalyst's
recommendations on what companies can do to retain and advance this important
segment of their talent pool.
Women of Color in Corporate Management: A Statistical Picture
(1997). A combination of census data and previously unpublished information
from Catalyst's Women in Corporate Leadership study presents a demographic
overview of women managers of color.
· Work and Family
Two Careers, One Marriage:
Making It Work in the Workplace (1998). Based on the responses of
almost 1,000 dual-career earners and aimed at employers, this study describes
the issues that mean the most to these couples.
A New Approach to Flexibility: Managing the Work/Time Equation
(1997). An assessment of flexible work arrangements describes strategies and
solutions.
Making Work Flexible: Policy to Practice (1996). A guide on
helping organizations and managers implement and manage flexible work
arrangements in corporations and professional firms.
Flexible Work Arrangements II: Succeeding with Part-Time Options
(1993). Findings from the first longitudinal study of flexible work
arrangements and their effect on employees' career growth.
The Corporate Guide to Parental Leaves (1992). A manual to help
employers plan or update a cost-effective parental leave policy, created before
the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 went into effect.
To learn more about Catalyst and to view a detailed list of all Catalyst publications visit www.catalystwomen.org.
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