STILL NOT SURE?

Consider these facts:

■   A 2004 four-year study of 353 Fortune 500 companies found that the group of companies with the highest representation of women in their senior management teams had a 35% higher Return on Equity ("ROE") and a 34% higher Total Return to Shareholders ("TRS") than companies with the lowest representation of women in senior management.

■   Within the next 20 years, over 80% of workers will be women and minorities.

■   Experience has shown that one of the three dominant factors influencing employees’ decisions to stay with their current employees is a positive relationship with their supervisor.  

■   Turnover costs for higher level employees are generally between 90% and 150% of the position’s annual salary

■   84% of human resource professionals at Fortune 500 companies say their top-level executives think diversity management is important.

■   Women make more than 85% of total household purchasing decisions, including cars, home improvement & vacations.