Women Corporate Officers and Top Earners
Source: Catalyst, The 1998 Catalyst Census of Women Corporate Officers and Top Earners of the Fortune 500
Corporate Officers
• 11.2% of corporate officers in Fortune 500 companies are women (1,230 of 11,017 total).
• 83 women hold the highest-ranking corporate officership positions—3.8% of the 2,267 individuals with titles of chairman, vice chairman, CEO, president, COO, SEVP, and EVP.
• Women fill only 6.2% of the total line positions held by corporate officers compared to men who fill 93.8%. Line positions are those with revenue-generating or profit-and-loss responsibility.
Top Earners
• 63 women are among the five most highly compensated officers in each company—2.7% of 2,320 top earners. This percentage has more than doubled since 1995—from 1.2% (29
women).
Companies
• 376 Fortune 500 companies (75%) have at least one woman corporate officer; 6% have women filling at least one quarter of their officer positions.