Largest Companies Refuse Women as Executives and Board Members

By Douglas A. McIntyre Updated Jan 24, 10:33AM EST · Published Aug 22, 9:40AM EDT

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Study after study has demonstrated the income disparity between women and men. Not surprisingly, this gender discrimination carries all the way into America’s boardrooms and corporate suites, where women continue to be underrepresented. To get a clearer understanding of the country’s continuing glass ceiling, 24/7 Wall St. took a hard look at the gender makeup of America’s 10 most valuable companies.

For the top companies, based on market cap, 24/7 Wall St. reviewed proxies for board and management composition, as well as data from the investor relations sections of the companies on this list. In order to compare all of the companies on the same basis, we used SEC data as our primary source for information, although we also examined company documents and public comments made by the companies about equal opportunity, particularly as it pertains to women.

About the Author Douglas A. McIntyre →

Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.