Why do DiversityInc Top 50 companies have 4 percent more women CEOs than Fortune 500 companies? How do they use best practices in diversity management to build a sustainable pipeline of women executives? IBM, Kraft Foods, WellPoint and Health Care Service Corporation have women CEOs and a base of women leaders in the next two levels of executives.

The exclusive articles and web seminars on diversity management listed below feature data and strategies that benefit women in mentoring, talent development, resource groups and diversity metrics.

Where’s the Diversity in Fortune 500 CEOs?
There’s a dearth of Black, Latino, Asian and women CEOs running major companies—but the DiversityInc Top 50 companies have better stats, thanks to diversity-management efforts.

Women’s History: Diversity Fact & Figures
Here are the relevant women’s-rights events and demographics you need to know.

Mentoring Roundtable: How Mentoring Improves Retention, Engagement & Promotions
In this diversity-management roundtable, IBM reveals how its women’s resource group creates targeted mentoring programs to increase promotions of women.

How Kraft Increased Promotions of Women in Sales by 39%
One of 12  diversity-management case studies: Kraft shares how to leverage employee-resource groups to increase representation of women, especially in senior management.

Increasing Diversity in Talent Development
Merck & Co.’s diversity-management leader recounts during this roundtable how its women’s resource group partnered with external educational programs to better develop its women talent for executive roles.

Resource Groups Webinar
How are resource groups helping MasterCard and Aetna improve employee retention, especially among women employees, to reach business goals?

Why Is Global Diversity So Difficult?
Our exclusive research from 17 countries explores how the norms around advancing women vary between European and Asian nations and what companies are doing to address issues of gender equity through diversity management.

Diversity Metrics Webinar
How does your company fare with the representation of women in the workforce, especially at management levels? This diversity web seminar will teach you how to accurately track key diversity-management metrics and set a diversity-management scorecard.

For more on gender equity and current women’s issues, read How ‘Slut’ and ‘Sweetie’ Challenge Gender Equity.

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As shown in DiversityInc’s Women’s History Month timeline and facts, women have made considerable progress since the beginnings of the women’s-rights movement in 1857. Yet women innovators, political activists and other gender-equality pioneers have largely gone unrecognized. It’s something that our nation’s numerous women’s-history museums are striving to change.

Here, DiversityInc provides a selection of our top resources that highlight the need for continued awareness for gender-diversity issues, as well as research and best practices for including and promoting women in business. Also read The DiversityInc Top 10 Companies for Executive Women for a list of the best flexible workplaces with strong talent development for women.

When Words Hinder Progress:

Is This the End of Rush Limbaugh? Advertisers Flee Show
The radio host receives explosive backlash after his misogynistic “slut” comment goes viral. He learns that in today’s social-media world, negative reactions are swift.

Is Professor’s ‘Hi, Sweetie’ Comment Sexual Harassment?
Did this university overreact when a professor called the department chair “sweetie” and chucked her chin?

Update on Giant Walmart Gender-Disparity Case, Plus Sex, Age & Disability Discrimination
Was “Good riddance, b—-!” sexual harassment when a male coworker shouted this to a female financial adviser who had just resigned? Read this and other discrimination cases.

Things NEVER to Say to Women Executives
Before you make that harmless little comment to the woman in the next office, take a look at things you should never say to a female executive or coworker. 

Best Practices:

How Women Benefit From Mentoring, Sponsorship
PricewaterhouseCoopers’ chief diversity officer provides seven ways women can take charge and start advancing their careers. 

How Kraft Increased Promotions of Women in Sales by 39%
In one of 12 case-study examples, Kraft shares how to leverage employee-resource groups to increase representation of women, especially in senior management.

What Does It Take for a Woman to Become CEO?
Against the odds, Beth Mooney became the first female CEO of a top 20 U.S. bank and is carrying on the culture of inclusion at KeyCorp.

Research Reveals:

Why Is Global Diversity So Difficult?
Our exclusive research from 17 countries explores how the norms around advancing women vary between European and Asian nations and what companies are doing to address issues of gender equity.

Study: Women Still Not Getting to the Top Levels
Women make up more than half the workforce, but they still are significantly underrepresented on corporate boards and in C-level executive positions. 

Where’s the Diversity in Fortune 500 CEOs?
There’s a dearth of Black, Latino, Asian and women CEOs running major companies—but the DiversityInc Top 50 companies have better stats.

For more best practices and research on gender equity and the inclusion of women in management, visit DiversityIncBestPractices.com.

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