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MEETING EDUCATIONAL RESOURCE IN A BOX bbernard/Shutterstock.com Facts & Figures 2 Women's History Month Timeline: Women's History Through the Years 6 Women’s History Month takes place in March to celebrate women’s strength, tenacity, resilience and contributions Year in Review: Women around the world. Women are diverse, with different Who Broke New Ground 11 backgrounds, sexual orientations, identities and abilities, and this month, we aim to celebrate all of them. Best Practices: Fostering a Workplace Where This Meeting in a Box is a valuable tool to continue your Women Thrive 13 employees’ cultural competence education, open up conversations about identity and gender equality and spotlight women’s accomplishments. CONFIDENTIAL AND PROPRIETARY This document and all of its contents are intended for the sole use of DiversityInc’s benchmarking and subscription-based customers. Any use of this material without specific permission from DiversityInc is strictly prohibited. FACTS & FIGURES Available demographic, education, financial and business-related data regarding women helps us to understand why parity for women has profound demographic, financial, education and business benefits. These numbers can help us identify what we can do to celebrate a diverse array of women and address the range of issues they face. DiversityInc’s unique Top 50 data also reveals the progress in the country’s most competitive organizations, as well as the areas where there is room for growth in regard to gender equity. DEMOGRAPHICS, 2019* White Women Did you know? 29.65% of total pop. Women make up roughly 10% of the veteran population. Black Women 5.99% of total pop. Asian Women 2.74% of total pop. AJR_photo/Shutterstock.com American Indian/Alaska Native Women 0.37% of total pop. Native Hawaiian/Other Pacific Islander Women 0.09% of total pop. Sources: 2019 Census Bureau , 2019 Department of Labor *Hispanic and Latinx people identify with many different races, however, a Catalyst study found that Hispanic/Latina women make up 18% of the total popu- lation of women in the U.S. © 2021 DIVERSITYINC 2 MEETING IN A BOX CONFIDENTIAL AND PROPRIETARY This document and all of its contents are intended for the sole use of DiversityInc’s benchmarking and subscription-based customers. Any use of this material without specific permission from DiversityInc is strictly prohibited. DIVERSITYINC TOP 50 DATA Percentage of Women and Women of Color (WOC) in Overall Workforce and Overall Management among 2020 DiversityInc Top 50 Participants *HoF = Hall of Fame Formal Mentoring and Sponsorship Among DiversityInc Top 50 Participants (Percent Who Answered "Yes" to the Following Questions) © 2021 DIVERSITYINC 3 MEETING IN A BOX CONFIDENTIAL AND PROPRIETARY This document and all of its contents are intended for the sole use of DiversityInc’s benchmarking and subscription-based customers. Any use of this material without specific permission from DiversityInc is strictly prohibited. WORKPLACE Fast Facts 40% of U.S. businesses in 2018 were woman-owned. 78% of new woman-owned businesses in 2018 belonged to women of color. 45.1% of the civilian labor force in December 2020 were women. 32.3% of U.S. management positions in 2019 were held by white women. 4.3% were Latina. 4.0% were Black. 4.5% were Asian. 25% of C-level executives in 2019 were women. EDUCATION Educational Attainment Source: 2019 Census © 2021 DIVERSITYINC 4 MEETING IN A BOX CONFIDENTIAL AND PROPRIETARY This document and all of its contents are intended for the sole use of DiversityInc’s benchmarking and subscription-based customers. Any use of this material without specific permission from DiversityInc is strictly prohibited. FINANCES 2019 Median Income Sources: 2019 Census Historical Income Tables, 2019 Census Median Income by Race, Hispanic Origin and Year Buying Power WOMEN'S ANNUAL CONSUMER SPENDING, 2019 Did you know? 6.4 trillion An estimated 70–80% Source: Catalyst of consumer purchasing is driven by women. DISCUSSION QUESTIONS FOR EMPLOYEES Q• How do these numbers reveal ways we can better serve women as a company, both as an employer and as a provider of goods and services? • How can we, as a company, be sure to engage woman consumers in empowering ways? • How can we continue to advance women throughout our organization? Rido/Shutterstock.com © 2021 DIVERSITYINC 5 MEETING IN A BOX CONFIDENTIAL AND PROPRIETARY This document and all of its contents are intended for the sole use of DiversityInc’s benchmarking and subscription-based customers. Any use of this material without specific permission from DiversityInc is strictly prohibited. TIMELINE: WOMEN'S HISTORY THROUGH THE YEARS Because of the broadness of women’s 1849 history, this timeline begins in 1789 after Elizabeth Blackwell becomes first woman to receive a the ratification of the U.S. Constitution, but medical degree from Geneva Medical College (now SUNY Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, New York). women played an important and essential role in America’s history before and during Harriet Tubman escapes to Philadelphia and helps about the Revolution as well. 300 enslaved people escape to the North for freedom via the Underground Railroad, a network of secret routes and 1789 safehouses that guided slaves in their escape. U.S. Constitution is ratified. The terms “persons,” “people” and “electors” allow for interpretation to include 1869 men and women, although women remain largely left out First women’s suffrage law is passed in the territory of of the public sphere for years to come. Wyoming. 1837 1916 Oberlin College in Ohio becomes first coeducational Jeannette Rankin of Montana becomes first woman college in the U.S. elected to Congress. 1839 1920 Mississippi becomes first state to grant married 19th Amendment gives women the right to vote. women the right to hold property in their own names, independent of their husbands. 1921 Reproductive activist Margaret Sanger founds the 1840 American Birth Control League, what is now Planned Catherine Brewer becomes first woman to receive a Parenthood. Though its history is complex and tainted bachelor’s degree from Georgia Female College (now with the eugenicist beliefs of the time, it goes on to help Wesleyan College) in Macon, Georgia by virtue of her many women have access to reproductive healthcare being alphabetically first in line in her class to receive and education. her diploma. 1925 1843 Miriam Ferguson of Texas and Nellie Tayloe Ross of Isabella Baumfree takes on the name Sojourner Truth Wyoming become first women elected as governors. and later goes on to become a famed abolitionist and women’s rights activist. Her famous “Ain’t I A Woman” speech in 1851 outlined her relationship with Blackness and womanhood. 1848 First women’s rights convention is held in Seneca 1848 Falls, New York to sign the Declaration of Rights and Sentiments. The document, modeled after the Declaration of Independence to demand equal rights for women, was signed by 68 women and 32 men. The Seneca Falls Convention (Public Domain image) © 2021 DIVERSITYINC 6 MEETING IN A BOX CONFIDENTIAL AND PROPRIETARY This document and all of its contents are intended for the sole use of DiversityInc’s benchmarking and subscription-based customers. Any use of this material without specific permission from DiversityInc is strictly prohibited. 1932 Amelia Earhart becomes first woman to fly solo across 1970 the Atlantic. Nonprofit women’s rights organization Our Bodies, Ourselves publishes a book of the same name. The Democrat Hattie Caraway of Arkansas becomes first book is controversial because it discusses women’s woman elected to Senate. sexuality and reproduction, but it is widely read and becomes a symbol for the women’s rights movement at the time. 1940 Hattie McDaniel is the first African American to win an Oscar for her role in Gone with the Wind. 1972 Title IX bans gender discrimination in federally funded education programs. 1955 First lesbian civil and political rights organization in the U.S., Daughters of Bilitis, is founded in San Francisco by 1973 Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon. In Roe v. Wade, the U.S. Supreme Court protects woman’s right to terminate pregnancy. Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat to a white man on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, sparking the Civil 1977 Rights Movement. Actor, dancer and singer Rita Moreno becomes the first Latina American to win an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and 1958 Tony (also known as an E.G.O.T). Actor Miyoshi Umeki becomes the first Asian American woman to win an Oscar for her role in Sayonara. 1978 Pregnancy Discrimination Act prohibits discrimination 1963 “on basis of pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions.” Congress passes Equal Pay Act to prohibit sex-based wage discrimination between men and women in the same establishment who perform jobs that require 1980 comparable skill, effort and responsibility under similar President Jimmy Carter declares the first week in March working conditions. as Women’s History Week. 1964 1981 Title VII of Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits employment Sandra Day O’Connor becomes first woman Supreme discrimination on basis of race, color, religion, national Court Justice. origin or sex. House Democrat Patsy Mink becomes the first Asian American woman and first woman of color elected to Congress. Later, she became the first Asian American woman to run for U.S. President. 1966 Betty Friedan, author of The Feminine Mystique, helps 1964 found the National Organization for Women (NOW) to support grassroots activism that upholds feminist ideals. 1967 Muriel Siebert becomes first woman to own a seat on the New York Stock Exchange. Patsy Mink (U.S. House of Representatives) © 2021 DIVERSITYINC 7 MEETING IN A BOX CONFIDENTIAL AND PROPRIETARY This document and all of its contents are intended for the sole use of DiversityInc’s benchmarking and subscription-based customers.