1 in 3 Tech CEOs Don't Think Gender Diversity Is Important

By Valentina Zarya, FORTUNE

According to a new survey.

It will take more than four decades for corporate boards to reach a 50-50 gender split — but do CEOs care?

The short answer: Only some of them do, at least according to new research by insight platform Qualtrics and theBoardlist, a “marketplace” for female board candidates.

Read the story here.

American Federation of Teachers Calls for Eliminating Gender Gap in Faculty Hiring and Pay

Women in Academia Report
Posted on Jun 04, 2011

The American Federation of Teachers has published a new report addressing gender inequity in higher education. The report entitled, Promoting Gender Diversity in the Faculty: What Higher Education Unions Can Do, states that while women are 57 percent of all enrollments in higher education, they make up only 40 percent of the full-time faculty. And the AFT report provides data on the gender gap in pay, in general and for specific academic disciplines.

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Executive Recruiting And Women Leaders: Get Serious

The Executive Search Group
Executive Recruiting Blog
Posted by Tim McIntyre on Thu, Feb 24, 2011 @ 08:24 AM

Executive Human capital, ahh. Everyone loves to talk about "gender diversity" and boardroom issues, surveys, why women leaders are leaving the workforce and talent acquisition, and all sorts of discourse, but in reality, very few are doing anything about really Targeting and Recruiting them.
For example, our search firm has published (an almost) quarterly survey sent to thousands and thousands of corporate personnel, and why there is strong sentiment and responses, and continuous downloading of ebooks and other materiels, when conversing with the head of diversity, or senior HR folks or heads of lines of businesses, clearly, these are academic pursuits for most, getting up to speed on the latest lingo for that upcoming meeting, or preparing to foist off on unsuspecting colleagues, bosses or watchful eyes the latest spin on "breaking the glass ceiling".

Full Blog Post: http://www.theexecutivesearchgroup.com/executiverecruiting/blog/bid/53733/Executive-Recruiting-And-Women-Leaders-Get-Serious