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10 Worst Places for Women to Work


I think there are a multitude of ways to gauge “worst place for women to work” but here’s 24/7 Wall Street’s take. Excerpt:

…The data used is from Catalyst, a non-profit organization which works to promote the status of women in business. Our analysis compared the Fortune 500 women who are executive officers as defined by the SEC to data on the number of female members of boards of directors at the same universe of companies. This is the first time these two lists have been cross-referenced for a public analysis.

The companies on the 24/7 Wall St. Worst Places for Women to Work list have no women on their boards and no women in senior management.  Any company on the list would have to: 1) completely lack sensitivity to the issues of women in the work place, or 2) have enough misgivings about women to insure that all the people who have any meaningful place in running their companies have to be men. It is hard to say whether these companies are “female-free” at the top tiers because of misogyny or dull-wittedness.  The practice of equal opportunity is missing at all of these companies.Our analysis makes an assumption, but we believe it is a fair one. A company with no women on its board or in senior management is extremely unlikely to be concerned about the issue of disparity in pay by gender  and is likely to perform worse than the national census average in terms of what it pays its non-executive female management and its women rank-and-file employees.

And the winners are (with greater detail at the article):1. Phillip Morris

2. Icahn Enterprises

3. Virgin Media

4. Liberty Media

5. L-3

6. EOG Resources

7. Cameron International

8. National Oilwell Varco

9. Emcor

10. XTO Energy

Hattip to Women’s Voices for Change.  What criteria would you look at?

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 10:49 am March 2nd, 2010 in Business, employment, Gender, leadership, Media, Sexism, Women 

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4 Responses to “10 Worst Places for Women to Work”

  1. 1 westwood on March 2nd, 2010 5:06 pm

    I’d say there are worse places to work. Construction is still 98% men and women are delegated the least engaging and most boring jobs (holding signs, operating elevators). Not to mention the rampant sexual harassment. CBC’s The Current featured an excellent radio documentary on it, a few months back. If you’d like, I could get it to anyone who likes.

  2. 2 Dick Sindall on March 19th, 2010 10:44 am

    I think Barbara Ehrenreich’s Nickel and Dimed hits us with a more brutal and extensive view of woman working than Wall Street can even imagine.

  3. 3 Jill Zimon on March 21st, 2010 11:54 am

    @Westwood – thanks for the comment – I apologize for the delay in replying. Yes, there are a lot of worse places to work. This was obviously a snapshot with a particular focus. Sure – if you have something to send on, I’d love to see it. Thanks for commenting.

  4. 4 Jill Zimon on March 21st, 2010 11:56 am

    @Dick thanks for commenting, no question – she is an expert in that regard.

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