The Pipeline to the Top: Women and Men in the Top Executive Ranks of U.S. Corporations

By Constance E. Helfat, Dawn Harris, Paul J. Wolfson. 2006

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Women’s Careers at the Start of the 21st Century: Patterns and Paradoxes (2008, background): “In fact, close to 50% of Fortune 1000 firms currently have no women at the executive level (Helfat et al., 2006).”
Women directors' contribution to board decision‐making and strategic involvement: The role of equality perception (2010, background): “T he number of women in board positions has increased significantly over the last decade (Helfat et al., 2006; Vinnicombe et al., 2008).”
Does Female Representation in Top Management Improve Firm Performance? A Panel Data Investigation (2012, background): “…of U.S. managers overall (Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2007), women remain significantly underrepresented at the top of the corporate hierarchy, both in the boardroom (Hillman, Shropshire, and Cannella, 2007) and in top management (Daily, Certo, and Dalton, 1999; Helfat, Harris, and Wolfson, 2006).”
Strategic and Regulatory Approaches to Increasing Women in Leadership: Multilevel Targets and Mandatory Quotas as Levers for Cultural Change (2016, background): “This is a situation also commented upon in academic research, ‘almost 50 percent of the firms in the Fortune 1000 had no women as top executives as recently as the year 2000’ (Helfat et al. 2006).”
The Conjoint Influence of Top and Middle Management Characteristics on Management Innovation (2018, background): “One explanation could be that the representation of women in TM is small (5% on average in our sample; see also Dezsö & Ross, 2012; Helfat et al., 2006).”