Key Findings: Business

Among Fortune 500 companies, women constitute only 3 percent of the CEOs, 6 percent of the top paying positions and 16 percent of the corporate officers.
Among Fortune 500 companies, women account for 15 percent of the board members; 13 percent of these companies have no women on their boards.
The leadership pipeline exists – women make up 48 percent of the labor force and 51 percent of all management/administrative/professional positions – but progress beyond this point is stalled and has been for the past three years.
The wage gap widens as women age and move up the ladder into management. Women make only 78 percent of what men make – an improvement of less than half a penny a year since 1963 when The Equal Pay Act was signed. African-American women make 64 percent and Hispanic women make 52 percent of what white men make.

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