New Clues to the Pay And Leadership Gap

摘要

Women continue to climb the corporate ladder. According to Catalyst, a nonprofit research and advisory organization working to advance women in business, women now hold twice as many senior management positions in large American companies as they did in 1995. Yet despite such progress, women occupy only about 16% of such positions and 13% of board of director seats in U.S. corporations-and the percentages are even lower in the rest of the world. Moreover, top leadership of large public companies remains almost universally male. In the U.S., only six of the CEOs of the Fortune 500 are female. According to Graef Crystal, a corporate-pay expert, women occupy only about 5% of the top five slots and 2% of the chief executive slots in U.S. public companies with net sales above $5 billion.