Catalyst for Women 

Women Scientists in Industry: A Winning Formula for Companies
09 Jun 99 | Women Scientists in Industry: A Winning Formula for Companies, based on in-depth interviews with 30 leading women scientists, finds that over half—17 out of 30—report that they were given little or no information about the corporate job market for...

Baxter Healthcare, Corning Incorporated And TD Bank Financial Group Win 1999 Catalyst Award
23 Mar 99 | NEW YORK, March 23, 1999, 6:00 p.m.—Baxter Healthcare Corporation, Corning Incorporated, and TD Bank Financial Group accepted the Catalyst Award this evening at a gala dinner at The Waldorf-Astoria. Dinner Chairman Reuben Mark, Chairman and CEO ...

Catalyst Census of Women Board Directors of Canada
27 Jan 99 | The overall numbers in Canada compare unfavorably to the U.S., where Catalyst's sixth annual Census of Women Board Directors of the Fortune 500 found that women hold 11.1 percent of board seats. Eighty-six percent of Fortune 500 companies have ...

1999 Catalyst Award Winners Move Women Up
07 Jan 99 | NEW YORK, January 7, 1999-Baxter Healthcare Corporation, Corning Incorporated, and TD Bank Financial Group have won the 1999 Catalyst Award for their exemplary initiatives to advance women into leadership. Baxter focuses efforts on a Work and ...

Catalyst Census Finds 86 Percent of Fortune 500 Companies Have Women Directors
15 Oct 98 | Women hold 671 board seats out of a total of 6,064, or 11.1 percent of Fortune 500 board seats, according to the 1998 Catalyst Census. Catalyst projects that women directors will reach parity in Fortune 500 corporate boardrooms in the year 2064, ...

Procter & Gamble And Sara Lee Corporation Win 1998 Catalyst Award
31 Mar 98 | NEW YORK, March 31, 1998, 6:00 p.m.—Procter & Gamble and Sara Lee Corporation accepted the 1998 Catalyst Award at a gala dinner this evening at The Waldorf-Astoria in New York. Since 1987, the Catalyst Award has honored 34 corporations that have ...

Entrepreneurial Ideas Motivate Women to Start Businesses
24 Feb 98 | Women who started businesses over the last ten years are more likely to have prior experience in professional or management positions than in clerical positions. Fifty-one percent of women business owners with prior private sector experience cite...

Advancement Opportunities Lacking, Say Corporate Women Of Color
10 Feb 98 | NEW YORK, February 10, 1998-A new Catalyst study released today, Women of Color in Corporate Management: Dynamics of Career Advancement, reveals that women-of-color executives perceive formidable barriers to advancement that have not yet been ...

Catalyst Study Finds Dual-Career Couples Want Freedom And Control
20 Jan 98 | NEW YORK, January 20, 1998—A two-career marriage offers couples the benefits of economic independence and career control, according to a Catalyst study released today at a press breakfast in New York City. Representing 45 percent of the labor ...

1998 Catalyst Award Winners Translate Vision Into Reality
08 Jan 98 | NEW YORK, January 8, 1998—Procter & Gamble and Sara Lee Corporation have won the 1998 Catalyst Award for their classic approaches to advancing and preparing women for senior management. Catalyst has awarded companies for exemplary initiatives to ...

Catalyst Study Finds Women Top Earners Doubling in 2-Year Period
11 Dec 97 | The study also finds that women hold 10.6 percent of Fortune 500 corporate officer positions, slightly up from ten percent last year. Women hold 5.3 percent of total line positions held by corporate officers.

Canadian Chief Executives Stress Women's Advancement in the Corporate and Professional Workplace
10 Dec 97 | Closing the Gap: Women's Advancement in Corporate and Professional Canada, the first large-scale study of its kind, reveals the varying perspectives of senior women and chief executives on what holds women back from the top. Both chief executives...

Part-Time Work Arrangements Have A Considerable Impact On Today's Workplaces
19 Nov 97 | Catalyst surveyed over 2,000 people and found that 82 percent of those working part-time were women, of whom 89 percent have children. "Part-time arrangements have a considerable impact on today's workplace, with 11 percent of the women ...

Catalyst Study Finds Women Of Color Under-Represented In The Managerial Workforce
22 Oct 97 | The report confirms an often assumed wage gap between women of color managers and white women managers, but also reveals a wide gender gap in earnings for private-sector managers. For every dollar white male managers make, white women managers ...

Women's Representation On Fortune 500 Boards Inches Upward
01 Oct 97 | Currently, eighty-four percent—419—of Fortune 500 companies have women board directors, up from 417 companies last year. Catalyst finds that 444 individual women currently serve on boards, a number that has increased 26 percent since the 1994 ...