Workplace: best workplaces for executive women.Contrary to some press reports that suggest women are fleeing from top jobs, 55 percent of women executives aspire to aspire to verb aim for, desire, pursue, hope for, long for, crave, seek out, wish for, dream about, yearn for, hunger for, hanker after, be eager for, set your heart on, set your sights on, be ambitious for the CEO's office, and another 19 percent are considering it, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. a survey by Catalyst, Women in U.S. Corporate Leadership 2003. Ilene Lang, Catalyst president argues, "It's not lack of ambition [that is] keeping women out." To get to the top, according to the National Association for Female Executives' (NAFE NAFE National Association for Female Executives NAFE National Association of Forensic Economics NAFE National Academy of Forensic Engineers NAFE Non-Advanced Further Education (UK) ) analysis of the 2004 Top 30 Companies for Executive Women, managing profit and loss (P & L) leads to the corner office. Currently, women fill less than 10 percent of the 6,428 total corporate line positions at America's largest companies--and only eight women serve as chief executives at America's 500 biggest companies. "When you get to the short list of candidates for the top job, that's typically where women's experience gaps are huge and visible," says Connie Duckworth, former chair of the Committee of 200 and a former managing director of Goldman Sachs. The good news, notes NAFE's survey, is that there are companies that have implemented remedies--those listed in its "Top 30." Comprising the top 10 in the ranking of companies--those with exemplary programs that ensure talented women receive P & L experience--were: Avon Products, Scholastic Corp., Liz Claiborne Inc., WellPoint Health Networks, Hewlett-Packard Corp., Charming Shoppes, Kraft Foods, The New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Times Co., IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) Corp, and Prudential Financial. Solutions for moving women up the corporate ladder gleaned from the Top 30 include: * Delineate the vision * Structure formal rotations * Listen to the women * Involve the CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. * Move women into foreign operations * Sharpen bottom line skills * Have a future focus. |
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