By Courtney • 15 years ago

Women on Wall Street

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We don’t tend to be all that big business-minded here at feministing, I assume because none of us work in that environment, but we certainly care about how women are faring in the corporate workplace. Jessica Wakeman has a good piece up on Wall Street and the women who struggle there at TheStreet.com. An excerpt:

…the lack of women in the executive suite is still jarring. They may make up 46% of the workforce, but women held only 15.4% of Fortune 500 corporate officer positions in 2007, according to Catalyst, a non-profit that studies women’s advancement in business. That percentage is an increase from 1997, when women only had 10.6% of such positions, but clearly the boardrooms in the U.S. skew mostly male. According to Gail Evans, former executive vice president of CNN (TWC) and author of the book Play Like a Man, Win Like a Woman. ‘There’s so few women [that] when one of them gets fired [from an executive position], the percentage drops 10 percent.’

Check the whole thing out here.
Image from Catalyst.

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