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Women Account for Under 1 in 10 Top Paid Execs and 1 in 5 Board Members in S&P 100

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Today, I’m sharing information from a new study by Calvert Investments, Examining the Cracks in the Ceiling: A Survey of Corporate Diversity Practices of the S&P 100. The report examined differences related to diversity practices since the last time the study was conducted in 2010. Ebay, and ApacheCorp.

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The Status of Women in Media Is Not Good

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population is 51% female and ethnically diverse, but you wouldn’t know it by looking at what’s under the hood of the media industry. They revealed statistical gems like the following: Just 26% of sources in 2010 were women. Only 13% of stories in mainstream broadcast and print news in 2010 focused specifically on women.

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Gender Gap on Corporate Boards in Canada Creates Calls for Quotas

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To date, nine countries have created some kind of quota requirements for corporate board diversity and another 20 have added some type of requirement for companies to address corporate board diversity in their annual reports. Despite these efforts to boost board diversity, women and other minorities are still grossly underrepresented.

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Women Still Lag in Journalism – By A Wide Margin

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. “At Newsweek, where a woman, Tina Brown, has run the show since the merger of Newsweek and The Daily Beast website in November of 2010, the imbalance has improved in the four decades since the women’s lawsuit. I’m happy to report that four years later, I do see more women writing and talking about business online.

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29 Fortune 500 Companies Have No Women on Boards

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The report also states that in 2010 the number of women on corporate boards of Fortune 500 companies dropped by 0.6% Makes you wonder just how diverse (or not diverse) these boards really are – not just in terms of women. The same industry has the lowest percentage of women directors (9.6%). to 16 percent.

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MEN, WOMEN, & THE GLASS ESCALATOR

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CNNMoney.com reported that in 2011 there were 12 FORTUNE 500 companies headed by women (although that was down from 15 in 2010). Census Bureau for 2010, for every 100 unmarried women there are 88 unmarried men. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), gender segregation among occupations in the United States is lessening to a small degree.

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Is a Corporate Board Seat in Your Future? :: Women on Business

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I sure that most of us are aware of the current studies that prove that having a diverse board (at least 30% women representation) contributes directly to a company’s performance. In fact, companies with more female representation, outperform companies don’t have women.