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Reaching the top: challenges and opportunities: women leaders

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Women have made impressive strides in the business and professional world. They hold half of all jobs in managerial and professional specialty occupations. Eight Fortune 500 companies have female CEOs. Women are also increasingly visible in leadership positions across the public, private, and professional sectors. ; On the other hand, only 10 percent of Fortune 500 companies have filled a quarter or more of their senior executive positions with women, and roughly 20 percent have no women executives at all. Meanwhile, anecdotes are accumulating that talented women are curtailing their labor force activity, both at senior levels and at key rungs of the corporate and professional ladders. ; This conference reviews how highly educated, high-achieving women are faring in today?s workplace. Are they continuing to make progress? What is keeping women out of the top echelons of management? What can organizations do to attract and develop high-achieving women? Is there a role for public policy intervention?

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  • anonymous, 2004. "Reaching the top: challenges and opportunities: women leaders," Conference Series ; [Proceedings], Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, issue Mar.
    • Handle: RePEc:fip:fedbcp:y:2004:i:mar
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    Women executives; Women - Employment;

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