The Corporate Glass Ceiling is Still Firmly in Place

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The glass ceiling remains. Among Fortune 500 companies, women occupy 15% of board seats [1] and are 3% of CEOs. In Canada, women make up 14% of board seats and 4% of CEOs at Financial Post 500 businesses. There are only four female CEOs leading the 100 most highly capitalized blue chip companies listed on the London [2] Stock Exchange, while 10% of board seats in Europe are held by women — a percentage largely buoyed by Norway [3]'s strict boardroom diversity laws.

Companies must take care to level the playing field from the start. The student body at Harvard Business School is 36% female, France's INSEAD, an international business school, is 29% and London Business School is 27%. When these talented women graduate this year, they should look for companies with a robust pipeline of women in middle management and at the top.

Source:

USA Today

URL:

http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/forum/2010-04-15-column15_ST1_N.htm

Date:

April 14, 2010

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Associated Issues & Expertise:

Advancing Women's Leadership [4]
Business & Entrepreneurship [5]
Diversity & Leadership [6]
Barriers & Opportunities [7]
Glass Ceilings & Barriers [8]
Discrimination [9]
Corporations [10]
Disparities [11]
Diversity & Inclusion [12]
Inclusion [13]
Leadership in Government, Politics, and Business [14]
Leadership Pipelines [15]
Equality, Diversity & Inclusion [16]
Women's & Girls' Leadership [17]
Diversity & Inclusion [18]
Women in Fund Management [19]

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[1] http://www.catalyst.org/publication/219/statistical-overview-of-women-in-the-workplace
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[3] http://content.usatoday.com/topics/topic/Places,+Geography/Countries/Norway
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