All rights reserved. Permission given to use the script provided that this notice remains as is. The auto industry s proverbial glass ceiling has not yet shattered. Now as ever, men hold nearly all the highest-ranking jobs.
Corporate boards remain male-dominated.
A woman presiding over a major automaker still seems as distant as a woman in the Oval Office. But social and economic changes in the past quarter century that transformed women s roles at home and at work did not bypass the auto industry. The effects of what started years ago are now beginning to be evident, and there is a much larger talent pool on its way. Still, industry players and watchers agree that the culture shift within the industry must continue if opportunities for women are to multiply and broaden. In compiling its list of 100 women leaders, Automotive News deliberately included a cross section of disciplines.