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Hot Topics: Women Executives and Career Tracks

The following articles and resources will speak to the topic of women executives and career choice. Specifically some articles will target women who "step out" and "step back in" the corporate world.

Selected articles

Due to contractual arrangements, access to some articles may be restricted to the Stanford community, and subscribers of the "Library Databases" offered through the GSB Alumni's Lifelong Learning Program. Inclusion below does not imply University endorsement of the ideas expressed.

Jobs for the girls. Economist, 5/3/08
Only 4 percent of the board members of Spain's corporations are women, one of the lowest representations in Europe.
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All girls together: women in business networks. Personnel Today, 3/3/08
In the ongoing struggle to reach the top in the male-centric workplace, women's networks are helping them break new ground.
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Why women in business became the solution, not the problem. The Guardian, 2/5/08
When companies look at attracting more women to top positions, the focus is often on how women should change and emulate their male bosses.
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Comeback moms. Working Mother, 1/8/08
As companies offer lavish leave options, would-be opt-out moms are being lured back to work. With up to five years of time off, is it any wonder these employers are winning our loyalty?
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Five years: The 25 most powerful women in banking. USBanker, October 2007
In its fifth-annual ranking of "The 25 Most Powerful Women in Banking," this publication pays tribute to the professional achievements and personal tenacity of top-performing industry executives.
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How an M.B.A. Mom Can Return to Work Force. Wall Street Journal, 9/11/07
Networking contacts are likely the key to finding the best opportunities, especially if you want to switch to a new field, says Helene Cruz, assistant director for M.B.A. programs and services at Pace University in New York.
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Full-Time Work Losing Luster for Moms. Associated Press, 7/16/07
In a survey Pew Research Center released last week, reported that 60 percent of working mothers now say part-time work is their ideal rather than full-time, compared to 48 percent a decade ago.
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Work-life balance. FT.com, 5/22/07
Despite the fact that more than half of professional school graduates are female, women still represent only 8 per cent of top earners at Fortune 500 companies. According to Sylvia Ann Hewlett, the reason is that the career-track structure does not give women a chance.
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The Pause that Refreshes. U.S. News & World Report, 5/20/07
Please don't call Mary Minnick a chief marketing officer. She was often called that at Coca-Cola but is not a fan of the title, which she says shortchanged her final contributions to the soft-drink giant.
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This Time It's Mine. BusinessWeek Online, Winter 2007
Why high-powered women are leaving Corporate America to become entrepreneurs.
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The Chosen Few. CFO.com, Mar. 8, 2007
Although women have been pouring into finance for decades, only a small number ever make it to the top.
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Women Executives Say Gender is Still Biggest Hurdle to Career Advancement, Accenture Research Shows. WSJ Online, Mar. 8, 2007
Women say their gender still plays a key role in limiting their achievement in the workplace, according to a research report released today by Accenture (NYSE: ACN).
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Off-Ramp--or Dead End? Harvard Business Review, Feb. 2007
The article presents a fictional case dealing with common managerial dilemmas. Cheryl Jamis is a senior manager attempting to juggle the responsibilities of her job and the responsibilities of motherhood.
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Cultivating Female Leaders. HRMagazine, Feb. 2007
The article discusses the effort of Safeway, a Fortune 50 corporation, to address diversity in the workplace and promote high-potential women.
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Women in technology: A call to action. InfoWorld, Jan. 29, 2007
Women who embrace technology as a lifelong career remain a rare breed. To be sure, opportunity for women in technology has advanced in the past few decades, as have education initiatives aimed at leveling the playing field, but for every woman rising to prominence or embarking on a profession in IT, there seems to be another opting out of her career in technology.
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How Suite It Isn't: A Dearth of Female Bosses. New York Times, Dec. 17, 2006
Like so many other women who entered corporate America in the 1970s, Carol Bartz simply wanted to make a little money. She did not harbor secret desires to run her own company or become chief executive of a large corporation. She just wanted to do a good job.
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Gore-Mann becomes first female athletic director at San Francisco. San Francisco Chronicle, Nov. 4, 2006
USF hired Gore-Mann away from Stanford in July, making her the first female athletic director in school history and only the third ever in the West Coast Conference.
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Female execs bail out of Detroit 3. Automotive News,Oct. 23, 2006
The article presents information on the increased number of departures of women executives from the Detroit 3, that is, Ford Motor Co., General Motors Corp. and DaimlerChrysler AG.
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The women of ICICI bank. Fortune, Oct. 16, 2006
How an entrepreneurial bank in Mumbai built its business by hiring smart women managers and creating a female-friendly environment.
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It's Good to Be the Boss. Fortune, Oct. 16, 2006
The article is about women who are chief executives of United States brand-name companies.
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What Men Think They Know About Executive Women. Harvard Business Review, Sept. 2006
The article reports on a survey of executives in public and private corporations in the United States concerning women in executive roles, which was conducted in 2005.
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Wall Street tries to adapt to needs of women. New York Times, Aug. 7, 2006
In early 2000, Elizabeth Stoeber, an ambitious 32-year-old investment banker at Morgan Stanley, flew to California to visit a client in the throes of a multibillion-dollar stock deal. The technology boom was under way, and Stoeber was on a roll; she was working on a high-profile deal in a profession she adored.
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Study: Women still lag men as executives. BusinessWeek Online, June 26, 2006
Women's progress in getting the top jobs in American business is so slow that at the current rate women are becoming corporate officers, it would take 40 years before they caught up with men, according to a survey released Wednesday.
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Woman executive is not shy when opportunities knock. Thomson Dialog NewsEdge, June 9, 2006
Patricia Woertz is a female and a chief executive officer, and very determined that people not view her as a female chief executive officer.
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JPMorgan woos women to invest in their careers. Financial Times (London Ed.), May 31, 2006
Gillian Tett asks whether the bank's greater focus on senior female staff is a sign of increased commitment - or a defensive move.
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Study Shows that Half of Industry Leaders Are Not Concerned That Women Executives Are Leaving the Workforce. Pepperdine University, May 24, 2006
Only half of senior level business executives (49%) surveyed are concerned about mid- and upper management women leaving the workforce for personal and/or family reasons, according to a survey conducted by Harris Interactive® among Fortune 1000 senior-level executives for Pepperdine University's Graziadio School of Business and Management.
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Women Find New Path to Work. HBS Working Knowledge, May 15, 2006
Professor Myra Hart's New Path program helps Harvard Business School alumnae re-enter the work world. Here is a look at what participants learned about life, work, and the quickly changing world of business.
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Business Schools Target Stay-At-Home Moms. Wall Street Journal Online, May 11, 2006
Seeking to tap a pool of professionals who are of increasing interest to employers, Harvard, Dartmouth and other graduate business programs are launching executive-education courses geared toward women who have put their careers on hold to raise families and are ready to return to the professional world.
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Cracks in glass ceiling Hotels are opening doors for women in management. San Francisco Chronicle, May 11, 2006
While women still comprise less than half of hotel GMs locally and nationally, industry experts say it's getting easier for women to fill top jobs in a field that—like many others—was long dominated by men in white shirts, dark suits and red ties.
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Where women's pay trumps men's. CNN, Mar. 2, 2006
Much is made of the fact the men often earn more than women. Well, that's not always the case. See which occupations defy the norm.
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Women Who Step Out of the Corporate World Find It Hard to Step Back In. Wharton Publishing, Sep. 9, 2005
Women executives who leave the corporate world when they hit a glass ceiling, want to raise a family fulltime or decide to focus on other interests, encounter frustrating roadblocks in their attempts to re-enter the workforce, according to new Wharton research.
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Getting Back in the Game. Business Week Online, Aug. 3, 2005
The authors provide recommendations that women, as well as employers and universities, can use to facilitate their reentry into business.
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The conundrum of the glass ceiling. Economist, July 21, 2005
Why are women so persistently absent from top corporate jobs?
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Back in the Game. Wharton Publishing, June 2005
This study, conducted by researchers at Wharton, captures the experiences of women who voluntarily step out of the workforce for a hiatus and provide proactive recommendations that these women, as well as employers and universities, can use to facilitate their re-entry into the working world.
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Off-Ramps and On-Ramps: Keeping Talented Women on the Road to Success. Harvard Business Review, March 2005
For professional women, it's hard not to step off the career fast track at some point along the way. With children to raise, elderly parents to care for, and all manner of other pulls on their time, they are confronted with one "off-ramp" after another. The "on ramps" for professional women to get back on track are few and far between. New survey research (unveiled for the first time in this article) reveals the extent of the problem - what percentage of highly qualified women leave work and for how long, what obstacles they face coming back, and what price they pay for their time out. Case examples reveal some promising solutions.
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The Case for Staying Home. Time, Mar. 22, 2004
Discussion of ways in which women can re-enter the workforce after several years at home.
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Fighting Female Flight: A New Staffing Priority. Wall Street Journal Online, Feb. 17, 2004
As more working mothers seek lengthy leaves to care for their families -- or quit jobs entirely -- some companies are devising new ways to lure them back to work.
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The following articles spotlight specific companies taking an active role in addressing women executives career issues:

Page updated by: Nora Richardson

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