Posted on 12/13/2008 8:40:42 AM PST by PittsburghAfterDark
A Carnegie Mellon University study has concluded that women executives out-earn their male counterparts.
The study, which examined 16,000 executives over 14 years, found that women at the top of the business world bring in a bit more than men and are promoted at the same rate, countering the popular notion that women earn less than men for the same work.
"That common perception is not borne out by this study," said Robert A. Miller, professor of economics and strategy and one of the authors. "If you're looking for evidence of gender discrimination in executive promotion and compensation, it's not happening there."
The study, "Are There Glass Ceilings for Female Executives?," was released last month by Carnegie Mellon's Tepper School of Business but hasn't been published yet.
The largest empirical analysis of the top echelons of publicly traded companies determined that women earned about $100,000 more per year than men of the same age, educational background and experience.
(Excerpt) Read more at postgazette.com ...
Okay Nags, its time to STFU. Put this in your quivers FReepers, the myth has been laid to rest that women are not paid the same as men.
I think there are two women CEOs in the Fortune 500, and maybe 3 of the companies were started by a woman. This article is complete nonsense.
How exactly does that prove that this study is nonsense?
Yes, because we know that Carnegie Mellon University is completely incompetent and a well known right leaning bastion of academia.... ROLLS EYES.
I pray for the day when my son will be able to make as much as his female counterparts in the workplace. I pray for the day when there is equal representation of men in college, graduate school, law school and medical school.
1) Data from the U.S. Department of Education shows women account for 58 percent of enrollment at public two- and four-year colleges and universities.
2) In the year 2000, the number of female applicants to law school has surpassed the number of male applicants, the Law School Admission Council said Wednesday.
3) In 2003, for the first time ever, women outnumbered men among people applying to U.S. medical schools for this fall — a milestone in the slow but steady increase in the number of aspiring female doctors. Now women outnumber men 3 to 2 at med school.
...oldest profession.
well, golly gee... no kidding...
For YEARS I’ve been READING how men out-earn women at equal positions, but in REAL life have seen the opposite be true. It’s about time we see the truth in print.
Look at the title of the article. "Women at the Top of Business Out Earn Men." Seeing as almost every Fortune 500 company was started by a man, and all but a few CEOs of the Fortune 500 are men (ie the highest paying jobs), women at the top are not in the same league as men, let alone "out earning men."
That doesn't even include Wall St., Hedge Funds, etc., where the same applies with all the CEOs and founders, and the pay is even higher.
Why would requiring equal representation of men be any better than requiring equal representation of women?
ping
There is no TRW any more. The company is gone.
It’s called ‘sarcasm’, duh.
Ah jeez, sorry, I thought you were part of the angry ‘men’s rights’ gang!
No problem. Merry Christmas.
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