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Women Executives

Even though women constitute 40% of all executives and administrative posts
(up from 24% in 1976), they are still restricted mostly to the middle and lower
positions, and the senior levels of management are almost entirely male domains.
A 1990 study of the top Fortune 500 companies by Mary Ann Von Glinow of the
University of Southern California, showed that "women were only 2.6% of
corporate officers (the vice presidential level up)." Of the Fortune Service
500, only 4.3% of the corporate officers were women - even though women are 6l%
of all service workers.
Even more disturbing is that these numbers have "shown little improvement
in the 25 years that these statistics have been ...

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be achieved until the
year 2116 - or for 125 years. (The Feminist Majority Foundation News Media
Publishing Inc., 1995)
In 1980, only one woman held the rank of CEO of a Fortune 500 company. This
woman came into the top management by inheriting the company from her father and
husband. In 1985, this executive was joined by a second woman who reached the
top - by founding the company she headed.
Even though the newspapers are reporting that women have come a long way
and are successful in the corporate world, women are banging into a "glass
ceiling" that is "so subtle that it is transparent, yet so strong that it
prevents women from moving up the corporate hierarchy". (Ann Morrison, The
Feminist Majority Foundation and News Media, Inc, 1955) Women can see the high-
level corporate positions but are kept from reaching the top. According to
Morrison (http//www.feminist.org/research/ewb glass.ntml.) and her colleagues,
the glass ceiling is not simply a barrier for an ...

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