Automakers

Ford gains on GM in executive diversity

General Motors CEO Mary Barra. The World Economic Forum estimates that it may take 80 years, at the current rate, for women to reach parity in leadership at companies across the globe.
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By:
Keith Naughton Jeff Green
August 30, 2016 05:00 AM

DETROIT -- Ford Motor Co.'s promotion of veteran executive Joy Falotico as the first woman to lead its credit unit puts the company a step closer to gender parity with General Motors Co. among the U.S. automakers' inner circles.

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