Despite progress, the following statistics on workplace diversity should trouble you. Ernst and Young recently did a study which found that more CEOs of large U.S. companies are named John (5.3 percent) than there are CEOs who are women (4.1 percent). There is not even a single solitary openly gay CEO of a Fortune 500 company and Career Builder found that only 35 percent of women feel confident that compensation is dispensed equitably between the genders.
Why should business leaders care? Well, there are several good reasons.
