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    This document is a slide presentation for a public policy conference on breaking the glass ceiling. It provides an overview of the concept of the glass ceiling and barriers that have prevented women and minorities from rising to higher levels in corporations and organizations. It discusses historical barriers women have faced in male-dominated fields. It also highlights some positive trends in recent decades with increasing numbers of women in senior management positions, corporate boards, and political leadership. However, it notes women and minorities remain underrepresented at the highest levels. The presentation examines different types of glass ceilings that exist and calls for continued efforts to break through these barriers.

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    This document is a slide presentation for a public policy conference on breaking the glass ceiling. It provides an overview of the concept of the glass ceiling and barriers that have prevented women and minorities from rising to higher levels in corporations and organizations. It discusses historical barriers women have faced in male-dominated fields. It also highlights some positive trends in recent decades with increasing numbers of women in senior management positions, corporate boards, and political leadership. However, it notes women and minorities remain underrepresented at the highest levels. The presentation examines different types of glass ceilings that exist and calls for continued efforts to break through these barriers.

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    CALIFORNIA FEDERATION OF BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL

    WOMEN
    Public Policy Conference
    February 9, 2013

    BREAKING
    THE GLASS
    CEILING
    Script By: Rosemary Enzer
    Slides By: Anne Marie
    Johnson

    Once upon a time.

    happily ever after.

    1970s and 80s


    Doctor

    Business
    Woman
    Lawyer

    Engineer
    Politicia
    n
    Interior
    Designer

    Skys the

    Dreaming
    dreaming

    POOF!

    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.

    Wome
    n
    seeme
    d to
    hit a
    point
    beyon
    d
    which
    they
    were

    Does It Really Exist?


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

    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 NEWS
    Women Serving on Corporate
    Boards
    1973
    1998
    11
    72%
    %
    2011 --- women occupied 16.1% of
    board seats.

    Women in Senior
    Management
    1995
    2012
    5%

    16%

    Women
    Mean
    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

    How we stack up on the world


    stage
    Rwand
    a
    Cub

    First
    3rd

    a
    United
    Tied for 80th
    States
    Venezue
    la
    Morocco

    Staine
    d
    Glass
    Ceiling

    Brass
    Ceiling

    Celluloi
    d
    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

    Reality or Excuse

    One Day
    Soon

    Are You

    Helping To Break The

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