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More Women Are Expected to Land CEO Roles
More women candidates mean more women CEOs in the coming years. Although only 35 women head the top 1000 companies, according to Fortune magazine’s rank- ings, the CEO pipeline has more women than ever before. Maggie Wilderotter, CEO of Frontier Communications Corp., says she wouldn’t be surprised if women CEO numbers doubled in the next fi ve years. McKinsey & Co. found that 24 percent of senior vice presidents at 59 large companies are now women. +2
Attitudes on Gay Athletes Are Changing, Says NFL Player
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Houston Texans’ linebacker Connor Barwin voiced his support for gay players. Barwin, whose brother is openly gay, said “I think they would surprised how welcoming people would be. I think at the end of the day guys care about how you play football, because we’re all so competitive about winning that if there is a guy who comes out as gay in our locker room and he’s a good football player, people aren’t going to care about that. I think that’s the honest truth. I think guys care about what kind of person they are, what kind of teammate they are and how good they are at helping us win.” Barwin says that he has noticed a sharp decline in the use of gay slurs in and around football and change will come quicker than expected. +1
Women Severely Underrepresented in Entertainment Offi ces
T e division of labor in movies was 82 percent men and 18 percent women, accord- ing to a San Diego State University study looking at directors, writers, executive producers, producers, editors, and cinematographers. T e demographics are almost identical to statistics from 14 years ago when they were tilted 83 percent men to 17 percent women. Meryl Streep lamented the slow progress of the studios. Over the last fi ve years fi ve movies (Mamma Mia, T e Devil Wears Prada, T e Iron Lady, T e Help, and Bridesmaids) aimed at women brought in over $1.6 billion in worldwide box offi ce, she said. She starred in T e Iron Lady, which cost $14 million to make and generated $114 million in ticket sales.
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Arizona State to Start a Law Grad ‘Residency’ Program
Douglas Sylvester, dean of Arizona State’s Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, wants to create a law residency for new graduates that will help them learn the skills necessary to open their own fi rms after two years in the program. Expected to be operational by 2013, the program would hire up to 30 “resident lawyers” from its graduates. T ey will eff ectively work as “partners” with fi ve or six experienced lawyers and handle public interest and small-client mat- ters. T e experience will allow them an opportunity to learn real-world law skills and how to operate a fi rm. T e new lawyers would be paid salaries and receive benefi ts but could also be fi red for poor performance. +2
Colleges Worry About Maintaining Diversity
Just nine years after the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the use of race as a factor in admissions decisions, the court will revisit the practice in an upcoming case. T e 2003 Grutter v. Bollinger decision permitted race as a factor in a holistic admissions process. College offi cials review the entirety of an appli- cation. Without being able to weigh ethnicity, many offi cials fear that it would be impossible to maintain the same level of diversity.
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