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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMore men named "John" run big companies than ALL women of any name, put together.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/03/upshot/fewer-women-run-big-companies-than-men-named-john.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=mini-moth®ion=top-stories-below&WT.nav=top-stories-below&abt=0002&abg=1Fewer large companies are run by women than by men named John, a sure indicator that the glass ceiling remains firmly in place in corporate America.
Among chief executives of S.&P. 1500 firms, for each woman, there are four men named John, Robert, William or James. Were calling this ratio the Glass Ceiling Index, and an index value above one means that Jims, Bobs, Jacks and Bills combined outnumber the total number of women, including every womens name, from Abby to Zara. Thus we score chief executive officers of large firms as having an index score of 4.0.
Our Glass Ceiling Index is inspired by a recent Ernst & Young report, which computed analogous numbers for board directors. That report yielded an index score of 1.03 for directors, meaning that for every one woman, there were 1.03 Jameses, Roberts, Johns and Williams combined serving on the boards of S.&P. 1500 companies.
Even as this ratio falls short of the score among chief executives, it remains astonishingly high. It also understates the impermeability of the glass ceiling. After all, most companies understand that an all-male board looks bad, and so most of them appoint at least one woman, although only a minority bother to appoint more than one. Far fewer of these large firms currently one in 25 are run by a woman serving as C.E.O.
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More men named "John" run big companies than ALL women of any name, put together. (Original Post)
pnwmom
Mar 2015
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TheCowsCameHome
(40,168 posts)1. Lots of restrooms are named after John, too
lumberjack_jeff
(33,224 posts)2. John privilege. n/t
seveneyes
(4,631 posts)3. fuck all that
Not now John ..