Even though women constitute 40% of all executives and administrative posts (up from 24% in 1976), they are still restricted mostly to the middle and lower positions, and the senior levels of management are almost entirely male
domains. A 1990 study of the top Fortune 500 companies by Mary Ann Von Glinow of the University of Southern California, showed that 'women were only 2.6% of corporate officers (the vice presidential level up).' Of the Fortune Service 500, only 4.3% of the corporate officers were women - even though women are 6l% of all service workers.
Even more disturbing is that these numbers have 'shown little improvement in the 25 years that these statistics have been tracked'. (University
of Michigan, Korn/Ferry International).…
