Women in the workplace

Women have made strides beyond belief in the past century, and it's safe to say that there is really no job a man can hold that a woman cannot, anymore. In 2006, of the 118 million women in the U.S. ages 16 and older, 70 million of them...

Women have made strides beyond belief in the past century, and it's safe to say that there is really no job a man can hold that a woman cannot, anymore. In 2006, of the 118 million women in the U.S. ages 16 and older, 70 million of them (almost 60%) were either working or looking for work. Yet, as of last year also, women still make only 77 cents on the dollar of what men make. Here's a sad fact: in 2006, only 15.6 percent of the Fortune 500 companies' corporate officers were women, and only 14.6 of their board directors.