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From the study A Census of Women Directors and Executive Officers:
- Women hold only 10.4% of the board seats and highest-paid executive positions (such as CEO, CIO, COO and CFO)
- Half of the 400 companies surveyed have no women among their executive officers
- 188 have no women in the boardroom
- The telecommunications sector has the lowest percentage of women directors, with 3.2%
- The electronics sector has the lowest percentage of women executive officers, with 2.9%
Source: University of California, Davis study of women at the top in the 400 largest publicly held corporations in California, from July 2006 to June 2007
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Footnotes: From "View from the TreeTop" Volume 2 Issue 6 June 2008