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Media Coverage of the Michigan Women's Leadership Index
October 21, 2009
The media all around Michigan is buzzing about Inforum Center for Leadership's release of the 2009 Michigan Women's Leadership Index. The Index studies the placement of women in executive positions, on boards and compensation. The index results were formally presented on Wednesday, Oct. 21 at events in Grand Rapids and Dearborn.
Here is a sampling of the coverage:
Here is a sampling of the coverage:
Grand Rapids Press
Michigan Women's Leadership index finds few women executives at West Michigan companies
By Julia Bauer
In a year when more women than men are in the work force, the top jobs still are elusive for female executives.
Among publicly held West Michigan companies, only a handful have women on their boards, and even fewer have promoted female executives to one of the five highest-paid jobs at the company. More here
Crain's Detroit Business
Women execs few in Michigan, Inforum study says
Numbers called detriment to keeping talent
By Sherri Begin Welch Michigan's top 100 public companies aren't tapping women as directors on their boards and top executives any more than they were six years ago, and that could be hurting the state's competitiveness, according to a new study. More here
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WJR Radio
Paul W. Smith talks to Terry Barclay, CEO of Inforum and the Inforum Center for Leadership and she says there's good news and bad news for women in the workforce. More here
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WJR Radio
Frank Beckmann speaks with Terry Barclay, President and CEO of Inforum, A Professional Women's Alliance, about women in leadership roles in the workplace. More here
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WWJ RadioWomen execs few in Michigan, Inforum study says
Numbers called detriment to keeping talent
By Sherri Begin Welch
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WJR Radio
Paul W. Smith talks to Terry Barclay, CEO of Inforum and the Inforum Center for Leadership and she says there's good news and bad news for women in the workforce. More here
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Frank Beckmann speaks with Terry Barclay, President and CEO of Inforum, A Professional Women's Alliance, about women in leadership roles in the workplace. More here
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Michigan Business Women 10/19
With Roberta Jasina: Some advice for Michigan business-women who want to make it to the top: Apply for those jobs. Podcast here
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Great Lakes IT Report (a WWJ e-publication)
Inforum: Michigan's Lack Of Female Execs Hurts State Economy
The top executives and directors of Michigan's top 100 publicly traded companies remain overwhelmingly male, according to the results of the Inforum Center for Leadership's 2009 Michigan women's Leadership Index, to be released Monday. More here
Inforum: Michigan's Lack Of Female Execs Hurts State Economy
The top executives and directors of Michigan's top 100 publicly traded companies remain overwhelmingly male, according to the results of the Inforum Center for Leadership's 2009 Michigan women's Leadership Index, to be released Monday. More here
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West Michigan Business Review
Inforum's 2009 Women's Leadership Index shows gender diversity still lacking
By Olivia Pulsinelli
Experts predict women will soon outnumber men in the work force, and they continue to gain in the current economy's growing industries.
Yet the biannual Inforum Center for Leadership's latest Women's Leadership Index shows most of Michigan's biggest public companies still lack gender diversity in their leadership. More here
Yet the biannual Inforum Center for Leadership's latest Women's Leadership Index shows most of Michigan's biggest public companies still lack gender diversity in their leadership. More here
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Booth Newspapers
Women hold few top business jobs, but recession could clear their way
By Rick Haglund
I've covered a lot of high-level business conferences over the years, and the single thing these events have had in common is this:
They're mostly populated with middle-aged or older white men. More here
Women hold few top business jobs, but recession could clear their way
By Rick Haglund
I've covered a lot of high-level business conferences over the years, and the single thing these events have had in common is this:
They're mostly populated with middle-aged or older white men. More here
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Detroit Free Press
Want to help Michigan? Let women lead
Compuware sets example for Michigan firms to follow
By Tom Walsh
Here in Mother Michigan, she of the 15.3% jobless rate, there is much consternation about brain drain, the flight of talented young people.
That is driving Terry Barclay bonkers as she reflects on results of the 2009 Michigan Women's Leadership Index, which shows -- as similar surveys did in 2003, 2005 and 2007 -- that women hold fewer than 10% of the top-earning jobs and corporate board seats in the state's top 100 public companies. More here
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Detroit News
Michigan businesswomen lag behind in top job parity
Female parity lacking in top power positions, says Women's Index report
By Nathan Hurst
Detroit -- Female executives may make up nearly half of Michigan's professionals and managers, but they've yet to join their male peers at parity in positions of top power. More here
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