With all due respect, this is a 2 dimensional analysis. It assumes that there is a woman at American Express, for example, Black or otherwise, going for Kenneth¹s job, and that the only reason she won¹t get it is because Kenneth is there. It also dismisses the fact that you have just named 7 men in senior positions (none of them owners, by the way) out of HOW MANY corporations? So, by this analysis, it would take 7 more Black Women in CEO positions in order for things to be balanced. The reality is that there are close to 20 Black CEOs. But even by this math, Having 14 Black faces on a list of 500 Fortune-rated companies doesn¹t exactly signal that ³we¹ve made it².
You are also dismissing the amount of Black VPs, SVPs, EVPs, and GMs at the companies that do not have Black CEOs, and a significant amount of them ARE Black women. And in addition, you are dismissing Black executives who were not born in the United States. So again, it goes to the question of how we are defining ³power². There is strength in numbers, and a greater strength in strategically placed number of people of color (from the entire Diaspora) in positions to make change. On 1/4/08 1:42 PM, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > In a message dated 1/4/2008 1:35:59 PM Eastern Standard Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:ravenadal%40yahoo.com> writes: > > Stan O'Neal ousted at Merril Lynch and Richard D. Parsons about > to retire at Time Warner, Kenneth Chenault remains at American > Express, Ronald Williams at Aetna, Clarence Otis Jr. at Darden > Restaurants, Aylwin Lewis at sears and John W. Thompson at Symantac. > I don't believe there is a similar list of African-American women. > The top eschelon of corporate America remains an old boy club. > > ~rave! > > I could not remember their names. I just did not want to say the Merril Lynch > guy. > > **************Start the year off right. Easy ways to stay in shape. > http://body.aol.com/fitness/winter-exercise?NCID=aolcmp00300000002489 > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
