Since 2000 US Gender Balance In Management Stalls
The United States' Government Accountability Office recently released a report revealing that American women are having difficulty entering management. The New York Times exposes some of the key statistics which enable an analysis of the evolution of female managers and a comparison between the respective situations of male and female managers.
- The report is a result of Representative Carolyn B. Maloney, chairwoman of the Joint Economic Committee as part of a hearing considering the gender gap in management.
- In 2000, 39% of management positions were occupied by women.
- In 2007, the most recent year for which data is available, women constituted 40% of the country’s managers.
- Not taking management jobs into account, women held 49% of jobs both in 2000 and in 2007.
- The fact that the percentage of management positions occupied by women only increased by 1 percentage point over 7 years, bringing it only marginally closer to the 49% of jobs occupied by women, reveals a problem.
- Female managers are, on average, less educated, younger and more likely to be working part-time than male managers.
- 13 industries were covered by the report, in all but three of them, women constituted a smaller portion of managerial positions than they did in that industry’s workforce.
- The exceptions were construction, public administration and transportation and utilities.
- Female managers with children earn 79 cents of every dollar paid to male managers with children.
- That gap has not evolved since 2000.
“When working women have kids, they know it change their lives, but they are stunned at how much it changes their paycheck…In this economy, it is adding insult to injury, especially as families are increasingly relying on the wages of working moms.”
Ms. Maloney
- 63% of female managers do not have children in 2007 as opposed to 57% of male managers.
- As for the managers who do have children, men, on average, have more than women.
- The reliable data stops in 2007 and only time will tell whether or not the recession shook the gender balance of management.
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