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Amanda Kimball
Research Specialist, Author of UC Davis Study of California Women Business Leaders

Jun 1, 2011

Amanda Kimball is a research specialist collaborating on faculty research projects. She authors the School’s annual “UC Davis Study of California Women Business Leaders.” Kimball is in the final stages of completing her PhD in Economics at UC Davis, where she earned her masters degree in 2003, with concentrations in Microeconomic Theory and Industrial Organization. She has a background in business and economics including having worked for Capital One, the Investment Company Institute, and the Corporate Executive Board.

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What Will It Take to Get More Women in Green-Energy Jobs?

Apr 27, 2013 Amanda Kimball 2012-2013 UC Davis Study of California Women Business Leaders The Atlantic

Innovation is at the heart of growth in any new sector, especially STEM-related ones, and the best driver of innovation is a diversity of perspectives, experiences, and expertise at the table. Interesting article about the lack of women in the Clean-Tech sector and how we can level the playing field. Amanda Kimball is quoted

(women) will stand out as being unique and bringing something new to the table…. women bring a perspective to the table that businesses are sorely lacking right now…” says Amanda Kimball, author of our UC Davis Study of California Women Business Leaders

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Boys’ Club Still in Charge of California Businesses

Dec 7, 2012 Amanda Kimball 2012-2013 UC Davis Study of California Women Business Leaders http://corpgov.net/

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. Incremental gains have been pitiful, in my opinion.

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In California, ‘dismal picture’ for women CEOs

Dec 7, 2012 Amanda Kimball 2012-2013 UC Davis Study of California Women Business Leaders Futurity.org

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.

The survey, the only one of its kind to focus on gender equity in the boardrooms and executive suites of corporate California, reports that some of the best known among the top companies, or the California 400, have no women leaders.

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Study of State Businesses Finds a Tough Road for Female Execs

Dec 6, 2012 Amanda Kimball 2012-2013 UC Davis Study of California Women Business Leaders Sacramento Bee

Women have made few inroads into the executive offices and boardrooms of California companies, according to a new UC Davis study.

The eighth annual “Study of California Women Business Leaders,” released Wednesday by the UC Davis Graduate School of Management, found that women still occupy less than one in 10 of the top posts at the 400 largest public firms headquartered in the state. The findings dovetail with past reports.

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UC Davis Study Finds Women Still Underrepresented California’s Executive Suites

Dec 5, 2012 Amanda Kimball 2012-2013 UC Davis Study of California Women Business Leaders Sacramento Bee

The eighth annual “Study of California Women Business Leaders,” released today by the UC Davis Graduate School of Business, found that women still occupy fewer than one in 10 of the top posts at the 400 largest public firms headquartered in the state.

This year’s findings dovetail with past reports.

This year, for the first time, the survey also looked at ethnicity among the 85 Fortune 1000 companies in California, and only one company in that subset of businesses had an ethnic woman as its CEO. Only 13 had any ethnic women directors.

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2012-2013 UC Davis Study of California Women Business Leaders
A Census of Women Directors and Highest-Paid Executives

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Nov 29, 2012 Amanda Kimball

The California 400: Still Dominated by Men

The UC Davis Graduate School of Management in partnership with Watermark publishes the annual “UC Davis Study of California Women Business Leaders: A Census of Women Directors and Executive Officers.”

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Where Are the Women Executives in Silicon Valley?

Dec 9, 2011 2011 UC Davis Study of California Women Business Leaders NewsWatch: Women In Business - 2011 UC Davis Study of California Women Business Leaders Amanda Kimball New York Times

Though it won’t be news to anyone who has worked in Silicon Valley, this article reports on the UC Davis study that confirms tech companies are woefully behind in including women among their board members and highest-paid executives—not to mention the engineering ranks.

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A Census of Women Directors and Highest-Paid Executives

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Dec 6, 2011 Tech sector's glass ceiling Amanda Kimball NewsWatch: Women In Business - 2011 UC Davis Study of California Women Business Leaders

Update: In an opinion piece in the San Francisco Chronicle on July 20, 2012, after Yahoo hired Marissa Mayer as CEO, Dean Steven Currall writes that male executives in the retro TV drama “Mad Men” would still feel right at home in modern-day Silicon Valley, where more than a third of the companies have no women among top executives and board directors.

See “Tech Sector’s Glass Ceiling”

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2010 UC Davis Study of California Women Business Leaders
A Census of Women Directors and Highest-Paid Executives

Dec 2, 2010 Donald A. Palmer Amanda Kimball California's Biggest Firms have few Female Executives, Study Finds Organizational Behavior

Our sixth annual study details the presence of women at the very top of the 400 largest publicly held corporations headquartered in the state. Our findings paint a disappointing picture of female representation on the boards and in the executive suites of these high-profile companies.

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Amanda Kimball
Research Specialist, Author of UC Davis Study of California Women Business Leaders

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