What are some statistics involving women in the workplace?
here are more women in the workplace today than ever, and they comprise a far greater percentage of the workforce; about 50%. But women make-up only a few percentage points of senior executives in the top 500 corporations. People say, well, it’s increased by 300%. But that’s because there was 1 woman, and now there are 3.Even 30 years after the most recent women’s movement, women still make approximately 2/3 of the money men do for the same job. There are exceptions to this; in workplaces where there’s a strong union which has challenged its own sexism. In these workplaces, job descriptions are universal and used for both men and women. However, most workplaces are not unionized, and many that are unionized still have sexism.
