(November 15, 2007) Fourteen members of the California Chamber of Commerce have been named among the top 25 California companies with women directors and executives.

The October list was part of the UC Davis Study of California Women Business Leaders: A Census of Women Directors and Executive Officers, which reports the presence of women at the very top of the largest publicly held corporations headquartered in the state.

The top 25 list highlights the companies with the highest percentage of women leaders, each having at least 25 percent of women directors and executives.

The following are CalChamber members listed in the top 25:

• Nara Bancorp Inc. Ranked 1.This parent company to Nara Bank boasts nearly half — 46 percent — of its leaders are women.
• Bare Escentuals, Inc. Ranked 2. This mineral makeup line has an executive team of which 45 percent are women. 
• Bebe Stores Inc. Ranked 3. Women make up about 43 percent of the executive team for this women’s clothing store chain. 
• Longs Drugs Stores Corp. Ranked 6 (tie). One-third of the company’s top officers are women.
• McClatchy Co. Ranked 8. The newspaper company and Internet publisher has five directors and three executive officers who are women, totaling 32 percent of its leadership team.  
• McKesson Corp. Ranked 10. About 31 percent of this health care services company’s leaders are women.
• BRE Properties. Ranked 11. Thirty percent of this real estate company’s leaders are women. 
• Gap, Inc. Ranked 12. The clothing chain has 30 percent of its directors who are female. 
• Charles Schwab Co. Ranked 13. This investment and financial services firm has four executive officers who are women, and 29 percent of its total leaders are female as well. 
• AMN Healthcare Services Inc. and Pacific Sunwear of California (tie). Ranked 16. The medical staffing company and surfwear clothing chain both have leadership teams made up of about 27 percent women.
• Wells Fargo & Co. Ranked 19. The banking company shows 26 percent of its leaders are women, with four female directors and three female executive officers. President Laura A. Schulte is a CalChamber Board member.
• ABM Industires. Ranked 23. More than a quarter — 26 percent —of this janitorial services company’s leaders are women. 
• Hewlett Packard Co. Ranked 24 (tie). The technology company tied for spot 24 with 25 percent of its executive leaders being women executive.

This marked the third year for the annual study, which is published by the UC Davis Graduate School of Management in partnership with the Forum for Women Entrepreneurs and Executives.