The Glass

Ceiling in Top
Management
Presented By:
Ann Kubricky

Agenda

Objective
Background on Glass Ceiling
Sex Stereotypes
Management Types

Womens Representation in Top Management

Value Proposition of Diversity
Employee Resource Groups

Glass Ceiling
those invisible, culturally embedded assumptions
and beliefs about the skills and competencies of
women that prevent their advancement into top
management positions or their advancement into
certain communities... The presence of such glass
barriers implies that certain positions and roles are
controlled primarily by men...
Burke and Vinnicombe, 2005

Background on Glass
Ceiling

Gender Stereotypes

Descriptive
Prescriptive

Management Types

Employee Involvement
Strategic Human Resource Management

Background on Glass
Ceiling

Fortune 1000 companies: there are more than

twice as many male executives than females in
HR management.

Fortune 500 companies: 50 companies have 25%

or more of women with corporate officer titles.

Fifteen of the Fortune 500-and twenty-five of the

1,000 largest firms-have female CEOs.

Gender Trends

Labor statistics
Workforce demographics
Career practices
Management stereotypes
Discrimination
Self-perceptions

Womens Representation in
Management
Men (82.94%) and white men in particular (71.53%) occupied
the vast majority of the 1,219 board seats.

Catalyst, 2008

Womens Representation in
Management
Female Representation on Boards of Directors
Associate with Fortunes 100 Best Companies to
Work For List

Bernardi and Bosco, 2006

Fortune 100 Best Companies

to Work for in America

Is there an ROI to
being on the
Fortunes 100 Best
Companies to Work
list?

Results
Buy /Hold and Active portfolios outperform the S&P 500
in each of the multi year periods and seven of the eight
annual periods in 1998-2005. (Goenner, 2005)
Firms on the list have higher sales growth, asset growth
and return on assets relative to S&P 100 in 1998.
(Fulmer et al, 2003)
Firms on the list have higher sales growth, asset growth
and return on assets relative to S&P 100 in 1990-1994.
(Lau and May, 1998)

Diversity Engagement
Model

Employee Resource Groups

Best Practices for ERGs

Diversity Engagement
Model

Sources

Business Source Complete

ABI Inform
Google Scholar
EBRI
Course Guide: Diversity
IntelliConnect
Ethnic News Watch
PsychInfo
Emerald Insight
Human Resource Abstracts
Consulting Sites: Hewitt, PDI

Questions?