Research

by UC Davis News Service

by UC Davis News Service

The 400 largest companies headquartered in California, representing almost $3 trillion in shareholder value, still resemble a “boys’ club” with women filling fewer than 10 percent of top executive jobs, a University of California, Davis, study has found.

The Graduate School of Management’s eighth annual UC Davis Study of California Women Business Leaders — a yearly benchmark for the Golden State’s lack of progress in promoting women business leaders — paints a dismal picture for women in leadership during fiscal year 2011-2012. Some of the best known among these top companies, or the California 400, have no women leaders.

UC Davis Investigates “Egregious Academic Freedom Violation”

On June 8, the UC Davis Academic Senate unanimously criticized several UC Davis Administrators for curtailing the right “of academic freedom of Professor Michael Wilkes and all other faculty to publish scholarly articles and professional expert commentaries that address ethics and societally relevant critiques” and expressed “severe disapproval of the notion that the University of California may take legal action against professors whose scholarly publications or professional expert commentaries may be perceived by University administrators to be injurious to University interests.”

They called upon Medical School Dean Claire Pomeroy, Executive Associate Dean Frederick Meyer, and Campus Health System Counselor David Levine to “promptly and publicly take responsibility for serious errors in judgment,” write individual letters of apology, and “rescind all disciplinary actions that have been stated, proposed, or taken against Professor Wilkes.”