Catalyst Awards Hail 4 Firms for Gender Diversity Initiatives - Building Gender Balanced Business

• Baxter International, CH2M HILL, Gibbons and KPMG were the 2009 Catalyst award winners for their initiatives to advance women in the workplace.

• The companies received their awards at a March 31 dinner at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York that was chaired by Irene Rosenfeld, CEO of Kraft Foods, one of the approximately 100 CEOs attending.

• Baxter International’s Asia Pacific initiative, Building Talent Edge attained its target of gender parity across management-level and critical positions two years ahead of schedule.

• CH2M HILL’s Constructing Pathways for Women Through Inclusion initiative provides a model for accelerating women’s advancement and brought the company the first Catalyst award in the engineering and construction sector.

• Gibbons’s Women’s Initiative: Driving Success Through Diversity Investment generated more than 6% of the company’s 2007 revenue.

• KPMG’s Great Place to Build a Career initiative constructs a culture of career growth, mentoring, and accountability for a pool of diverse individuals.

Catalyst’s news release

Online Recruitment’s report on the awards