Report: Women hold only 14.3 percent of executive positions at major companies

Today, Catalyst released their 2012 report detailing the gender gap in the leadership of the Fortune 500 companies. Here are some facts:

• Women held 14.3 percent of executive officer positions.
• Women held 8.1 percent of top earner positions.
• Women held 16.6 percent of board seats.
• Women of color held just 3.3 percent of board seats.
• One-quarter of the companies had no women in executive officer positions.
• One-tenth of the companies had no women on their boards.
• Two-thirds of companies had no women of color on their boards.

And, as Bryce Covert notes, things have barely gotten any better in recent years: “2012 was the seventh consecutive year in which we haven’t seen any growth in board seats and the third year of stagnation in the C-suite.” At a certain point, “progress” is so slow that it’s more appropriately spelled p-l-a-t-e-a-u.

Check out the report here and here, as well as Catalyst’s new Corporate Board Resource, a real “binder full of women.”