One of the most striking results over the five years of the PAR Initiative is the increase in leadership programs for women at all levels. In 2003, 71.4 percent of participants offered leadership training for high-ranking women, and in 2007 that figure stood at 77.1 percent.
Training for mid-level and entry-level women saw even more significant gains. In 2003, 64.3 percent offered leadership training for mid-level women, and that has risen to 77.1 percent in 2007. When the PAR Initiative began in 2003, only 28.6 percent of companies offered leadership training for entry-level women; that number has skyrocketed to 71.4 percent today.
In 2003, 17.9 percent of companies offered rotations into operating positions. Today that number has grown to 31.4 percent.
Cable companies are also investing in mid-level women through career planning and in female IT staffers through similar retention programs.
There has been a significant increase in the number of corporate women’s networks. In 2003, they were present at 28.6 percent of companies. Today, 60 percent of companies have them.
|
Celebrating five years of measuring the status of women in the cable industry
  
|