What Does It Take to Be a Top 25 Company?

PBWC is pleased to announce the first annual PBWC Pacesetter Award in our fourteen year history. PBWC has worked to support the advancement of women in the workplace. With the inauguration of the Pacesetter Award, we will honor those Bay Area companies that embody the mission of our organization and that work to advance women on an ongoing basis.

The awards will be presented May 1, 2003 at the PBWC Keynote Luncheon in San Jose when State Senator Jackie Speier will honor those San Francisco Bay Area companies that exemplify our mission.

What Does It Take to Be a Top 25 Company?

The Pacesetter Award winners are listed below in ranked order. Here is the criteria used in ranking each company and determining this year's winners:

  • Percentage of women executives defined as vice president or equivalent and above
  • Percentage of women corporate officers
  • Percentage of women directors on the board
  • Percentage of women employees
  • Development and continuing support of programs that benefit women in the workplace
Rank Company
1
2 GAP Inc.
3
4
4 Charles Schwab & Co.
4 Guidant
4 SBC Communications
4 Wells Fargo
9 AT&T
9 Providian Financial
11
12 Cisco Systems
12
14 McKesson
14 Pacific Gas & Electric Co.
14 PeopleSoft
17
17 Lockheed Martin
17 Safeway
20 IBM Corporation
20 United Airlines
22
22 Seagate Technology
22 Silicon Graphics
25 Siebel Systems

(To view the detailed score sheet, please click here.)

Notes:

1. Data collected was self-reported by individual company representatives.
2. The following companies declined to participate: Agilent Technologies, Apple Computer, Applied Materials, Intel, and Visa International.
3. The initial list of largest, publicly-held employers in nine Bay Area counties (Napa, Sonoma, Marin, San Francisco, Contra Costa, Alameda, San Mateo, Santa Clara, and Santa Cruz) was derived from the State of California Employment Development Department data and the San Francisco Business Times Book of Lists. State Farm is a mutually held company.
4. The percentage of women corporate officers' data was benchmarked against the 2002 Catalyst Census, a report available from Catalyst, Inc., a nonprofit research and advisory organization.

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