Moms Rising!

[indievixen]

Jeremy pointed out awhile ago that very few women are the CEO's of Fortune 500 companies compared to men, and he also asked why that is. Here's a few reasons related to motherhood, which I pointed out before to some degree and also a very interesting website where this info comes from

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[blinxfx]

Out of the fortune 1000, 20 of them have female CEOs. 2%, and trust me they're nowhere close to the top and most of them are for womanly focused companies. The good news is that this statistic can only go up

[indievixen]

There IS a correlation between pay and position, because pay in many ways indicates that you are valued in your position and at your company. It is abundantly clear that women are generally not valued as much as men especially if they are mothers because they are not paid as if they are valued as much.

The idea that the job is open to anybody is just bullshit. Of course on the surface it has to seem that way by law, but there are so many obstacles and stereotypes built into the system that it just isn't the reality.

A child isn't an excuse, it's a human being and a fact of life for 83% of women. Countries all over the world that we consider ourselves better than have family-friendly national policies that don't penalize women for having children.

Oh...totally unrelated, I was channel surfing while waiting for dinner to be done last night and caught Karen on Will & Grace saying, "I like Filipinos. They're asian but they're not cocky about it." All I could think was, "Well she doesn't know Jeremy."