Women in Business
Only 7.4 percent of CEO positions at S&P 500 companies are held by women. That’s 37 women serving as CEOs. Only three are women of color.
Only 7 women run companies on the list of the top 100 companies.
This is an “all-time high” in female CEO’s.
Only 21.2 percent of board positions at S&P 500 companies are held by women.
Only 26.5 percent of executive or senior level management positions are held by women.
Only 36.9 percent of mid-level officials AND managers are women.
A 2019 study from S&P Global Market Intelligence finds that boards hold women to higher standards than the men preceding them. And the women deliver. Public companies with female CEOS or CFOs often were more profitable and delivered better stock price performance with female leaders.
See the 2020 workplace pyramid at Catalyst.
WOMEN IN LAW
50 percent of law school graduates are women.
However, women make up only 38 percent of all American attorneys. Only 9 percent are women of color.
Only 22.7 percent of all private practice partners are women. Only 9 percent are women of color.
Only 19 percent of all equity partners are women. Only 3 percent are women of color.
Only 30 percent of nonequity partners are women. Only 5 percent are women of color.
Only 33 percent of general counsels to Fortune 500 companies are women.
Only 35 percent of law school deans are women. About 16 percent are women of color.
Only 27 percent of sitting federal judges are women. Only 6.7 percent are women of color. During President Donald Trump’s administration, six women of color have been replaced by white men and two by white women.
Only 30 percent of state court judges are women. Only 8 percent are women of color.
Thanks to Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sonia Sotomayor, and Elena Kagan, 33 percent of the justices on the U.S. Supreme Court are women.
Read the American Bar Association’s 2019 report “A Current Glance at Women in the Law” and 2020 report “Left Out and Left Behind” and the 2019 “Gavel Gap” report by the American Constitution Society.
WOMEN IN MEDICINE
In 2019, for the first time, more women than men were enrolled in medical school; 50.5 percent of all medical students are women.
People of color comprised 48 percent of all medical students, almost 24 percent identifying as Asian.
Only 35.2 percent of all active physicians are women. Only 2 percent are black female physicians.
Only 34 percent of full-time faculty at medical schools are women.
Only 18 percent of deans of medical schools are women.
Gender segregation remains marked in female residents’ choices of specialties.
72.1 percent of pediatricians are women.
73.4 percent of allergy and immunology specialists are women.
83.4 percent of obstetricians and gynecologists are women.
Only 6.5 percent of orthopedic surgeons are women.
Only 20.6 percent of all general surgeons are women.
Only 27.6 percent of emergency room physicians are women.
Read “Women in Medicine” “Gender Pay Disparities and Workplace Discrimination” and “Active Physicians” for more information.
WOMEN IN ENTERTAINMENT
In 2018-2019, 68 percent of prime-time television’s casts featured more men than women in speaking parts.
Women comprised 45 percent of major characters on broadcast network, cable, and streaming programs.
Across platforms, 70 percent of female characters were white.
In 2019, 40 percent of top-grossing films featured female protagonists. This was a record high.
Women accounted for only 21 percent of all directors, writers, producers, executive producers, editors, and cinematographers working on 2019’s 250 top-grossing films.
In 2019, 31 percent of films employed zero or one woman in those roles.
Women comprised 37 percent of major characters and 34 percent of all speaking characters.
Only 20 percent of speaking roles went to black women, 7 percent to Asian women, and 5 percent to Latinas.
Of the 250 top-grossing films in 2019, 85 percent had no female directors; 73 percent had no female writers; 44 percent had no female executive producers; 27 percent had no female producers; 72 percent had no female editors; and 95 percent had no female cinematographers.
Men wrote 68 percent of all film reviews and comprise 71 percent of all film critics.
Read the 2019 “It’s a Man’s (Celluloid) World Report and “Boxed-In 2018-2019: Women on Screen and Behind the Scenes in Television.”
And “Thumbs Down 2019: Film Critics and Gender, and Why It Matters.”
And “2019 Celluloid Ceiling Report: Study Finds Women Still Largely Underrepresented in Hollywood.”
Go to Time’s Up to read about its focus on gender-based discrimination and its work on safety, equity, and power for women.