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Glass Ceiling Still an Issue
Compiled by the DiversityInc staff
April 13, 2006
The glass ceiling has been severely cracked but it still is here and keeping many women from reaching the top offices in corporate America.
Census figures from 2003 show that fewer than three percent of management jobs are held by women and that only one in five "top-level managers" are women. Various surveys indicate only about one in seven directors of the nation's largest publicly traded companies are women, The Houston Chronicle reports.
"I would say all of us probably have been in that same situation at work our whole lives," says Jeannine Strandjord, who is one of the few women from the Kansas City area who serve on the boards of more than one major public company. "Until the last few years, I was always alone, so we are used to it," adds the recently retired senior vice president of financial services of Sprint (No. 37 on The DiversityInc Top 50 Companies for Diversity list).
Recently Strandjord and several other women corporate board members from the Kansas City area came together for a roundtable discussion about women in the workplace and what areas need more attention. Among the issues raised were young women opting out of the work force to raise families and the issue of tokenism.
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