california federation of business and professional women public policy conference february 9, 2013...

CALIFORNIA FEDERATION OF BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL WOMEN

Public Policy Conference

February 9, 2013

BREAKING

Script By: Rosemary Enzer

Slides By: Anne Marie Johnson

THE GLASS CEILING

Once upon a time….

…happily ever after.

1970’s and 80’s

Doctor

Business Woman

Lawyer

Engineer

Politician

Sky’s the Limit!

Interior Designer

POOF!

Dreaming…dreaming…

Reality Sets In

GLASS CEILING

• An invisible limit in corporations and other organizations above which it is difficult or impossible for women to rise in the ranks.

Women seemed to hit a point beyond which they were unable to progress.

Does It Really Exist?

In 1991, the U. S. Department of Labor defined glass ceiling as "those artificial barriers based on attitudinal or organizational bias that prevent qualified individuals from advancing upward in their organization into management-level positions."

Report on the Glass Ceiling Initiative, U. S. Department of Labor, 1991

The department's Glass Ceiling Commission (1991-1996) studied these barriers not only as they apply to women, but as they apply to minorities as well.

GOOD NEWSWomen Serving on Corporate Boards

199811% 72%1973

Women in Senior Management1995 2012

5% 16%

2011 --- women occupied 16.1% of board seats.

WomenMean

Business

In 2012 she became the president and CEO of Yahoo!. Previously, she was a long-time executive and key spokesperson for Google. She is the youngest CEO of a Fortune 500 company, and has been ranked number 14 on the list of America's most powerful businesswomen of 2012 by Fortune magazine.

Marissa Mayer

Women make historic gains in the U.S. Senate

Jan Perry

Wendy Greuel

How we stack up on the world stage

Rwanda First

Cuba 3rd

United StatesVenezuelaMorocco

Tied for 80th

Stained

Glass

Ceiling

Brass

Ceiling

The 2006 Celluloid Ceiling Report studied films of 2006 with combined domestic box office grosses of approximately $8.9 billion. It found women comprised 7% of directors, 10% of writers, 16% of executive producers, 20% of producers, 21% of editors, and 2% of cinematographers in the films studied.

Women in the Audience Supporting Women Artists Now (WITASWAN). The WITASWAN mission is to convince women that the best way to puncture the celluloid ceiling is to use "the power of the purse": buy tickets to movies made by women directors and screenwriters, rent DVDs made by women directors and screenwriters, etc.

Celluloid

Ceiling

Reality or Excuse

One Day Soon

Are You

Helping To Break The Glass Ceiling?