There's a gender gap at most companies where the biggest paychecks go to men.
That's because men hold almost 95% of the jobs with direct responsibility for corporate profits, This, according to a study by a nonprofit group promoting the role of women in business, including equal pay for equal work.
The Catalyst Survey shows women are gaining a bigger share of high-level corporate jobs.
But when it comes to the big position of chief executive officer, corporate boards want their CEO candidates to be experienced in profit and loss.
An increasing number of women job candidates who I counsel held accounting jobs.
One of them, an accounting major in college, told me that women comprised half her class.
Corporate boards need to awaken to this fact: an increasing number of women in the workforce are experienced in profit in loss.
Yet among Fortune 500 Companies, only 5% of corporate CEOs are women.
The gap at the top is vast.
Take women's salaries.
Women make $150 thousand less than their male counterparts.
Companies offer two reasons for the lack of equal pay for women.
A lack of experience.
And a lack of salary negotiating skills.
A supervising psychologist told a group of career counselors he wished someone would do for money what Freud has done for sex.
While men probably negotiate better than women, both sexes fear to negotiate for salary and ask for raises.
Unequal pay for women can be corrected when women job job candidates at any level learn how to negotiate.
You can take a course in how to negotiate.
Or read a good book on the subject.
Then after you land, find out what the guy sitting next to you makes.
If it's more, request a salary boost.
You can also consider starting your own business.
Women have it all over men in self-employment.
While movement of women into top slots in major corporations is slow, just look at what you've accomplished in the entrepreneurial business world.
Women own nearly 40% of entrepreneurial businesses.
You play a major role in the arena of company growth.