Missing Pieces Report: The 2016 Board Diversity Census of Women and Minorities on Fortune 500 Boards
Read More: Despite modest gains, Women and minorities see little change in representation on Fortune 500 Boards. Almost 70 percent of Fortune 500 board seats still held by Caucasian/white men; collectively, women and minorities comprise an all-time high of 30.8 percent of board seats among Fortune 500 companies, up from…
Menendez’ Survey Highlights Corporate America’s Diversity Problem
Read More: “White men continue to represent the overwhelming majority of executive team members, comprising 69.7% of senior executives at participating Fortune 100 companies. The representation of women and people of color on executive teams decreased overall from 2011 to 2014 and is at even lower levels than on corporate…
Sustained efforts to increase minority representation in healthcare executive ranks are delivering results, but barriers still remain
Read More: “Just as growing diversity is shaking up the nation’s politics, the increasingly multicultural populations served by U.S. healthcare providers are also driving changes in the organizations’ C-suites and boardrooms. But the transformation is still a work in progress. Based on 2012 data from the Institute for Diversity in…
Racial and Ethnic Diversity among Public Service Leadership
Read More: Public service leadership is a broad and expanding field, as well as a collective of critical decision points along the spectrum of civic and political engagement. While there are segments of public service leadership hat have effectively engaged people of color, in too many areas of leadership there…
Diversity Among CEOs and Corporate Directors: Has the Heyday Come and Gone?
Read More: As of early 2014, the overall picture is not one of increasing diversity. There is a growing but still small percentage of white women who are CEOs of Fortune companies (4% of all Fortune 500 CEOs in 2013), but there has been a decline in the number of…
Missing Pieces (2012) : Women and Minorities on Fortune 500 Boards
Read More: “According to the report, Missing Pieces: Women and Minorities on Fortune 500 Boards, 2012 Alliance for Board Diversity Census, in the Fortune 100, women and minorities remain vastly underrepresented at the decision-making tables of corporate boardrooms, with white/Caucasian men comprising nearly 70 percent of the 1,214 seats. The…
Minority & Female Representation on Fortune 250 Boards & Executive Teams
Read More: In June 2013, Russell Reynolds Associates undertook a detailed analysis of minority and female representation on Fortune 250 boards and executive teams. Our analysis included thorough reviews of the profiles of all directors sitting on the boards of the 229 publicly traded companies in the Fortune 250. The…
Eight charts that put tech companies’ diversity stats into perspective
Read More: “The latest hot-button subject in tech, hotter even than ephemeral apps, is diversity. Or at least, if not actual diversity, the act of releasing employee diversity statistics. From Apple to Twitter, almost all the big names in Silicon Valley are doing it. Google fell first in May, and with…
Diversity Sells — But Hollywood Remains Overwhelmingly White, Male
Read More: “If you want an accurate picture of ethnic and gender diversity in the United States, don’t look to Hollywood. That’s the conclusion of the “2015 Hollywood Diversity Report” conducted by the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies at UCLA. The report quantifies the striking — if…
How tech companies compare in employee diversity
Read More: “Silicon Valley companies like Google, Apple and Facebook may be innovative, but they sure aren’t when it comes to making their workplaces diverse. Criticized for their hiring practices, tech companies started publishing employee demographic data over the past few months. It only confirmed what many people had suspected:…
