Still Few Women in Management, Report Says

Victoria Phillips
10/1/2010
4:50pm


In a report that was released Tuesday by the Government Accountability Office, data proved that despite women’s progression around the world, many management positions are still held by men. This data was based on the results of the American Community Survey of the Census Bureau. Women make up 40% percent of managers in the United States work force. The wage gap has also gotten slightly smaller with full-time women earning 80.2 cents on every dollar that full-time working men earned. The work industry with the most narrow wage gap is public administration with the largest gap in construction and financial services. Women managers with children earned even less than male managers with children. Therefore, female managers were more likely to not have children. They were also most likely not married. However, it is difficult to determine why this gap exists because the Census Bureau doesn’t try to control details like hours worked or if these men and women are full-time or part-time.
No one can deny the progression that women have made in society, yet, there is still much to improve on. Why is it that men can still make more even when they’re married and have children? Maybe it’s the whole concept of the “second shift”. Times have changed, but mostly women still take care of the children and domestic responsibilities, even women who have full-time jobs. They have a job, then come home and have another one. Maybe full-time women who have children also need time off from work to take care of them when their children are sick, resulting in lower wages.


http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/28/business/28gender.html?scp=9&sq=women&st=cse