Carrie Lukas attributes it in part to telecommunting and being able to work at home. She puts it this way…
According to the nonprofit research institute Catalyst, just eight Fortune 500 companies have female CEOs, and women account for just 5.2 percent of those companies’ top earners.
A Harvard Business Review survey of midcareer women with graduate degrees or college degrees with honors found that more than one-third had taken extended time off from work, with the average break lasting more than two years. Surveys have shown that women evaluating job opportunities place a lower value on pay than men do, focusing more on job characteristics like flexibility and personal fulfillment.
There probably never will be as many women running Fortune 500 companies as men. But our market-based system ensures that companies will be competing to find new ways to attract and maintain the highly skilled female workforce. Now that’s progress.
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