G.M. is also eliminating 10,000 salaried positions worldwide, including 3,400 in the United States.
"I think Ford is not in a position worldwide to pump more money into the operation here," Mr. Stricker said.
Tenneco Automotive said yesterday that it planned to eliminate up to an additional 405 salaried positions worldwide, because of increasingly difficult industry conditions in the automotive supply market.
Sotheby's, which began reducing its work force at the end of last year, announced yesterday that it would eliminate about 147 additional positions worldwide.
Centrica is shedding 6,000 jobs, mainly in the UK, while Shell said it would axe 6,500 staff and contract positions worldwide this year, including 750 in the North Sea.
The study reveals stark differences in critical motivational factors that distinguish people in senior positions worldwide, which may be preventing women from progressing.
UBS, which cut about 18,500 positions worldwide during the crisis, plans to hire several hundred people to strengthen sales and distribution of its fixed-income and equities businesses.
"The acquisition of Houghton Mifflin propels Vivendi Universal Publishing to the No. 2 position worldwide in education publishing and significantly enhances its position in the U.S. textbook market," Jean-Marie Messier, Vivendi's chairman, said in a statement.
LaSalle Bank on Tuesday told 160 Chicago workers that they'll be losing their jobs as part of its parent's previously announced plans to slash about 3,500 information technology positions worldwide.
In private equity, women account for roughly 9 percent of the senior management positions worldwide, with the share varying from 9.1 percent in Europe to 8.7 percent in the United States, according to a study this year by the industry research firm Preqin.
