By Salerie Vauss
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, Nov 27th, 2010
A new study to be released today on gender equity in the work place concludes that the "Glass Ceiling" in the U.S. is a myth and that both sexes are doing just fine with respect to gaing access to the board room in Americas top 100 companies.
The report by the nonprofit American Association of University Womyn, which promotes equity for women, reviewed nearly 40 years of data on achievement in the work place and for the first time analyzed gender differences within economic, educational and ethnic categories.
The most important conclusion of "Where Women Are: The Facts About Women and the Glass Ceiling'" is that executive achievement is more closely associated with education than with gender, its authors said.
"A lot of people think it is women that need the help to get into the boardroom," co-author Cristianne Chorbett said. "The point of the report is to highlight the fact that that is not exclusively true. There is no crisis with women. If there is a crisis, it is people with no education." She goes onto to recommend that if our companies are to be truelly representative of our society a percentage of board seats should be reserved for this large demographic. Although some maintain this is already the case.
Across the board, on all measures, when more men get to the board room so do women. “A rising tide lifts all boats. When more men get to the boardroom, we see improvements across gender and race.” stated AAUW Executive Director Dinda D. Lallman, CAE.
The report is the latest and, according to the AAUW, the most comprehensive, of several issued over the past two decades by groups alleging crises.
Lallman goes on to say that in fact there are 800% more women in the board rooms of companies than they were 20 years ago. She also says "women are doing better than ever before its just that men are doing even better. We should be giving the men a pat on the back for working so hard"
You kidding me?
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