This award will be presented each year at the PBWC conference.


At the 2004 conference in San Francisco, the PBWC will announce the second annual Pacesetter Award in its fifteen year history. PBWC honors the top Bay Area companies that embody the mission of our organization and that work to advance women in the workplace on an ongoing basis.

This award will be presented each year at the PBWC conference.

What Does It Take to Be a Top Company?

The 2004 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 in the Bay Area defined as vice president or equivalent and above
  • Percentage of women corporate officers
  • Percentage of women directors on the board
  • Percentage of women employees in the Bay Area
  • Development and continuing support of programs that benefit women in the workplace
Rank Company
1
2 SBC Communications
3
3
5 Guidant
6 Charles Schwab & Company
6 Gap, Inc.
8
8 Providian Financial
10 AT&T
10 Adobe Systems
10
13 Cisco Systems
13 IBM Corporation
13 McKesson
16 Knight Ridder
16 Pacific Gas and Electric Company
18 PeopleSoft
19 Calpine
19
19 Sybase
22 Silicon Graphics
23 Seagate Technology

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

Notes:

1. Data collected was self-reported by individual company representatives.
2. The following companies did not submit data: ABM Industries, Agilent Technologies, Applied Materials, Golden West Financial, KLA-Tencor, Lockheed Martin, Oracle Corporation, Safeway, Inc., Siebel Systems, United Airlines, Wells Fargo.
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 2004 San Francisco Business Times Book of Lists. State Farm is a mutually held company.
4. The percentage of women board directors was benchmarked against the 2003 Catalyst Census and the 2004 Corporate Women Directors International report.

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