*Women compose ~50% of the workforce in the USA, but according to the Department of Labor, "·women have not made significant gains into middle and senior levels of management, notwithstanding their increased experience, credentials, over all qualifications and greater attachment to the work force."
*At the current rate of increase, it will take 456 years (until 2466) before women are as equally represented at the top of the career ladder as they are at the bottom.
*In the Fortune 500 companies, women compose only 2.6% of corporate officers, even though they make up 61% of all employees.
*79% of Fortune 500 company CEOs admit that there are identifiable organisational and attitudinal barriers that prohibit women from reaching the top. (1990 survey by Catalyst, a women's issues research consortium)
*Job segregation: the majority of women execs are concentrated in female-dominated industries, health care and education.
*A study funded by BPW foundation found a typical pattern: the number of female managers increases and resistance to them falls until the percentage of women nears 15%. Then discrimination including outright harassment begins to rise. As women go from ãtokenä to actual competitors in the company, resistance to them rises.
*Assertiveness is seen as a positive quality in males. Yet this same quality is seen as a negative aggressiveness in women.
*Among the 435 possible seats in the House of Representatives, women hold only 29 (6.4%) seats.
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