BusinessWeek: October 24, 1994

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GLASS CEILING? WHAT GLASS CEILING?

CORPORATE AMERICA IS FRUStrating Labor Secretary Robert Reich. Labor Dept. officials say their study panel, created in 1991 to figure out ways to crack the "glass ceiling" stopping women and minorities from reaching business' top echelons, has gotten minimal cooperation from companies. At a recent hearing in New York by the Reich-chaired Glass Ceiling Commission, only 3 of the 93 invited companies showed up.

One reason for the no-shows, says a commission official, is that companies recoil from supplying the grist for a full-blown federal discrimination probe. In fact, the commission's questionnaire for the study is rather mushy. It didn't inquire how many females and minorities have gotten promotions, asking instead just for general policies.

Some no-shows say the $738,000-per-year commission did a bad job contacting them. Deloitte & Touche says it believed the commission changed the hearing date at the last minute. (McGraw-Hill, publisher of BUSINESS WEEK, missed the hearing but did provide an outline of its policies.) Others had different explanations for not appearing. "We don't have the staffing for this," says Catherine Conroy, a spokeswoman for Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette.

EDITED BY LARRY LIGHT & JULIE TILSNER By Christina Del Valle
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