Equal Pay For Women

There is a gender gap in most companies where salaries are higher for men. This is because men hold almost 95% of 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 job.

The Catalyst study shows women are gaining a greater share of jobs high-level business. But when it comes to big position of chief executive officer, boards want their CEO candidates living in the profits and losses.

A growing number of women job candidates that I gave advice accounting jobs. One of them, an accounting major in college, told me that women constituted half of his class.

Business cards need to awaken to this fact: a growing number of women in the workforce occur in profits at a loss. Yet, among the Fortune 500 companies, only 5% of corporate CEOs are women. The gap is very wide at the top.

Take the salaries of women. Women $ 150 000 less than their male colleagues. The companies offer two reasons for the lack of equal pay for women. The lack of experience. And the lack of salary negotiation skills.

A psychologist supervisor told a group of career counselors he wished someone would do for money what Freud did for sex. While men probably negotiate better than women, men and women fear to negotiate salary and ask for raises.

Unequal pay for women can be corrected when women job applicants to work at any level learn to negotiate. You can take a course on how to negotiate. Or read a good book on the subject. Then, after landing, find out what the guy sitting next to you does. If there is more, request a salary boost.

You may also consider starting your own business. Women who have all men over to self-employment. While the women's movement in the top slot for large companies it is slow, just look at what you have done throughout the business world. Women own nearly 40% of business firms. It plays an important role within the company's growth ....