Corporations

 From Bloomberg:

As Augusta National Golf Club prepares to host the competition next week, it faces a quandary: The club hasn’t admitted a woman as a member since its founding eight decades ago, yet it has historically invited the chief executive officer of IBM, one of three Masters sponsors. Since the company named Rometty to the post this year, Augusta will have to break tradition either way.

IBM holds a rarefied position at the Augusta, Georgia, course. The company has a hospitality cabin near the 10th hole, beside co-sponsors Exxon Mobil Corp. (XOM) and AT&T Inc. (T) The companies’ male CEOs have been able to don the club’s signature green member blazers while hosting clients. Non-members, who don’t wear the jackets, must be accompanied by a member to visit the course or play a round.

“They have a dilemma on many levels,” said Marcia Chambers, senior research scholar in law and journalist in residence at Yale University Law School. “If there’s been a tradition of certain CEOs, then they should look at this new CEO in the same way. The only thing that makes her any different is her gender.”

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 From Reuters:

A new snapshot of trends at mid-cap companies show women are far less likely than their male counterparts to reach top leadership positions at those firms.

On the bright side, however they are starting to close a pay gap with men and - in a cluster of industries - even out-earn them.

Researchers at Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business surveyed about 2,000 executives at companies with stock market capitalization of $1 billion to $7 billion, so-called mid-cap firms.

They found that women made up 4.5 percent of the top leadership in 2010. That is far less than at larger firms, where other data show women make up about 14 percent of executive positions.

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 From Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP:

Partner Lisa-Marie Monsanto is among the 30 women being celebrated by the National Council for Research on Women for their efforts to advance women’s issues, promote women's leadership and change the way the world views women and girls. The honorees were recognized at the NCRW's annual Making a Difference for Women Awards Dinner held March 6 in New York. The NCRW is a network of leading research, policy and advocacy centers committed to improving the lives of women and girls. Ms. Monsanto was nominated by her peers for her outstanding work promoting women's leadership in the United States and abroad. In addition to serving on Katten's Committee on Racial and Ethnic Diversity, Ms. Monsanto is a member of the Board of Directors of the Rotary Club of Washington, D.C., a LEADer with Women’s World Banking and a member of the Leadership Circle of Women’s Foreign Policy Group. As a board member of The White House Project, she helped create its Washington, D.C. Leadership Circle, bringing together female leaders from the public and private sectors. Ms. Monsanto also serves on The White House Project's Corporate Council. Click hereto read more about the 30 Leaders Changing the Way the World Looks at Women.

 From Bloomberg:

“Women in the U.S. became 50 percent of college graduates in 1981,” Sandberg, 42, said at the Women in the World conference in New York. “In every industry, women have steadily made progress in the past 30 years -- except at the top, where, essentially, over the last 10 years, there hasn’t been progress.”