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New U.S. Women in Business Statistics Released by Catalyst

By Susan Gunelius

Catalyst released some interesting statistics about women in business in the United States this month. 

Check out some of the information available in the Catalyst U.S. Women in Business report:

  • Percentage of women in the U.S. labor force: 46.3%
  • Percentage of women in management, professional and related occupations: 50.6%
  • Percentage of female Fortune 500 corporate officers: 15.4%
  • Percentage of female Fortune 500 board seats: 14.8%
  • Percentage of female Fortune 500 top earners: 6.7%
  • Percentage of female Fortune 500 CEOs: 2.4%

Here are some statistics from the Catalyst Women CEOs of the Fortune 1000 report:

  • Number of female CEOs of Fortune 500 companies: 12
  • Number of female CEOs in Fortune 501-1000 companies: 10
  • Total female CEOS in Fortune 1000 companies: 22

Looks like the business world has a long way to go to reach anything close to equality in leadership.  Your thoughts?

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After reviewing these statistics a thoughtful person must conclude that either women are inadequate to the task of business leadership, or this is the result of bias – whether accidental or purposeful, it really doesn’t matter. I’m a physicist, and I look at the data to decide what is going on. This data tells me that the playing field for women is far from level. Research on selection of orchestra members, reported in Malcolm Gladwell’s book “Blink”, demonstrated that equal numbers of women and men are selected when the judges don’t know whether the musicians playing are men or women. When they DO know, men are preferentially selected. Let’s not delude ourselves, women have a higher hill to climb than men to get to the top. That’s part of the reason women are starting their own businesses. No one can stop us from being the CEO of our own business! Stay Scrappy!

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