Research
Research on Black women executives
By WomenSuite at 4 February, 2009, 3:35 pm
As part of Black History Month, I’d like to highlight some important research on Black women executives that was released in 2008 and confirmed in a recent 2009 poll.
In early January, the Executive Leadership Council® and Harris Interactive® polled senior corporate executives about the challenges facing and opportunities available to Black women in executive roles at [...]
2042 or 2039?
By WomenSuite at 23 August, 2008, 8:56 pm
According to a recent release from the U.S. Census Bureau, multicultural people will become the majority of the U.S. population in 2042. Its previous release estimated that date to be 2050.
For the business-minded, another milestone appears even earlier: among the working age population, multicultural people are anticipated to be the majority in 2039!
Of course these [...]
Statisticienne: Women of Color Veterans
By WomenSuite at 7 August, 2008, 5:58 pm
Did you know that one third of veterans are women of color? I had absolutely no idea, until Michelle Chen included that statistic in her recent article “Home from the Military” in Colorlines, the national newsmagazine on race and politics. Colorlines is published by the Applied Research Center, an organization devoted to advancing racial justice.
Interesting, [...]
Multicultural Women's Participation Rates in the U.S. Labor Force
By WomenSuite at 14 July, 2008, 1:55 am
So, who’s working out there?
To find out, I went to the recent statistics released by the Women’s Data Center of the Institute for Women’s Policy Research. Here’s what I found:
Participation Rates
African-American women have the highest participation in the labor force at 63.1%. This rate is 4-6% higher than any other group of women. White women [...]
Research Updates
By WomenSuite at 6 June, 2008, 10:08 pm
It’s time to catch up on some of the recent research on women of color/multicultural women.
One recent study was released in mid-May by Catalyst on Women of Color in Accounting. This research is is part of their Women of Color in Professional Services series and was sponsored by Ernst & Young (lead sponsor), Deloitte & [...]
Is the Glass Ceiling Really Unbreakable?
By WomenSuite at 25 November, 2006, 1:43 pm
No.
But the studies on the advancement of women (especially women of color) in corporate america are not showing the sort of improvement that ought to follow all of these diversity programs and initiatives. Professors at Tuck (Dartmouth) and Loyola Chicago recently released a study entitled “The Pipeline to the Top: Women and Men in the [...]
Tired of Choosing?
By WomenSuite at 15 November, 2006, 7:30 pm
Dr. Evangelina Holvino is a faculty member at the Center for Gender in Organizations at the Simmons Graduate School of Mangement. Dr. Holvino recently authored an interesting article on the experiences of women of color in business organizations:
“Tired of Choosing”: Working with the Simultaneity of Race, Gender, and Class in Organizations.
Read the article: http://www.simmons.edu/som/docs/centers/insights_24.pdf
For more [...]
"Blending In", "Sticking Together" or Both?
By WomenSuite at 27 September, 2006, 2:37 pm
Catalyst recently released a study on the networking styles of women of color, finding that women of color typically adopt a style on the continuum between:
“Blending In” – having a high number of colleagues from work, or a high number of white men in one’s network; or
“Sticking Together” – having a low number of colleagues [...]
Statisticienne: Women of Color vs. Men of Color on Corporate Boards
By WomenSuite at 8 September, 2006, 1:41 pm
Catalyst has done some terrific research on women on corporate boards. Their census on Fortune 500 boards reveals some troubling statistics on the composition of corporate boards, in terms of gender and race. You can find the Catalyst study here.
Out of the 266 companies (Fortune 500) that confirmed the ethnic makeup of their boards, women [...]
