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.” ...