PBWC is pleased to announce the 4th Annual PBWC Pacesetter Award. In our seventeen year history, PBWC has worked to support the advancement of women in the workplace. With the continuation of the Pacesetter Award, we will honor those Bay Area companies that embody the mission of our organization and that work to advance women on an ongoing basis.

What Does It Take to Be a Top Company?

The Pacesetter Award winners are listed below in ranked order. The criteria used in ranking each company and determining this year's winners are:

        * Percentage of women on the Board of Directors
        * Percentage of women corporate officers
        * Percentage of women executives in the Bay Area defined as vice president and above
        * Percentage of women employees in the Bay Area
        * Programs the company has in place to support women in the workplace such as mentoring, internal women's networks, advancement, benefits, leadership, community outreach, etc.
        * Flexible work arrangements for Bay Area women in exempt positions. Indicate the number that are working part time, the number that are job sharing, and the number that are working flexible schedules

During the keynote luncheon, State Senator Jackie Speier honored the Bay Area companies that exemplified our mission.

    1 Wells Fargo
    2 Gap, Inc.
    3 Bank of America
    4 Hewlett-Packard
    5 Knight-Ridder
    5 IBM
    7 Guidant
    8 Pacific Gas & Electric Company
    8 Seagate Technology
    10 Genentech
    11 Chevron
    11 Cisco Systems
    13 State Farm Insurance
    14 Microsoft
    15 Sybase
    16 McKesson

Notes:
1. Data collected was self-reported by individual company representatives. 2. The initial list of largest, publicly-held employers in nine Bay Area counties (Napa, Sonoma, Marin, San Francisco, Contra Costa, Alameda, San Mateo, Santa Clara, and Santa Cruz) was derived from the San Francisco Business Times Book of Lists.