Voice of Experience: Virginia Gambale, Managing Partner of Azimuth Partners LLC
Gambale advises women in the financial services industry: “Don’t wait for someone to give you the job; just start doing. Develop your own voice-an expertise in a very specific area-and become the go-to person in the industry. That will give you a lot of opportunity to advance.” The Glass Hammer, December 14, 2009

Working to Get More Seats at the Table
During her career, Winston & Strawn LLP corporate partner Christine Edwards has helped tear down barriers to women in a business sector that, historically, has been overhelmingly male. Diversity@Winston & Strawn newsletter, Fall 2009.

Major Press Coverage and Blog Posts about UC Davis/FWE&E 2009 Census
Study Finds Lack of Calif. Women Executives (ABC-7 TV News), Wendy Beecham on NPR (Southern California Public Radio), Women Execs Still Stalled in State’s Biggest Companies (Sacramento Bee), San Francisco Nurtures Female Execs, Study Finds (SF Chronicle), Few Women on Boards of State’s Largest Firms (SF Chronicle), Top Female Executives Still Rare, UC Davis Study Shows (LA Times), Study Finds Few Female Execs at California Companies (Associated Press), Women Still Largely Absent in California Board Rooms (Sacramento Business Journal), Clorox’s New CSR Website (Marketwire)

Dealing with dearth of women board members
In just one year, the number of women holding executive positions in Massachusetts’ largest public corporations has dropped dramatically, and women have gained no ground in terms of the number of board of director positions to which they are appointed. Meanwhile, 30 out of the largest 100 companies statewide have no women at all either as executives or members of their boards of directors. Those are the results of the 2009 Census of Women Directors and Executive Officers of Massachusetts Public Companies, a report compiled annually by Bentley University, The Boston Club and Mercer. Boston Business Journal, Nov. 2, 2009

Fund Plans to Invest in Companies with Women as Directors
A Swiss investment company plans to raise awareness about the shortage of women on corporate boards around the world and generate returns for its investors in the process. New York Times, October 27, 2009

Women’s progress on boards ‘disappointing’
Women have made little to no progress on the boards or in the executive suites of Georgia’s public companies. The Board of Directors Network (BDN) . . . just- issued 2009 study shows that only 45 percent of Georgia’s 160 public companies have at least one woman on their board – the lowest percentage in seven years. Atlanta Business Chronicle, October 23-29, 2009.

Want to help Michigan? Let women lead.
Compuware sets example for Michigan firms to follow. Terry Barclay, president and CEO of ION member Inforum, 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 percent of the top-earning jobs and corporate board seats in the state’s top 100 public companies. Detroit Free Press, October 19, 2009

Forum of Executive Women celebrates gains, points to need for improvement at breakfast.
At its Annual Leadership Breakfast Wednesday, the Forum of Executive Women highlighted statistics that showed, for the most part, that women gained a stronger foothold on leadership positions at the Philadelphia area’s largest 100 public companies in 2008. Philadelphia Business Journal, October 14, 2009

Few Gains for women at the top of public companies
“Slim to none. These three words sum up the gains women have made in board rooms and executive suites…” The Glass Hammer, March 12, 2009