glass ceiling

Augusta National, the all-male country club that hosts golf's Masters tournament, always invited the CEOs of sponsor IBM to join -- until this year, because a woman, Ginni Rometty heads the company. Now both sides have a big PR problem.

Executives ask themselves daily: "What can I do to give my company an edge?" Studies show that the answer may be as simple as hiring more women for executive and board of director roles. So you just might want to invest in these six companies that have done just that.

The glass ceiling has cracked, but women are still lagging behind men in earnings -- by over $10,000 in median annual income. The gap, however, continues to narrow. Our friends at Mint.com recently illustrated the current state of affairs in this infographic. Budget

Despite the claims that men and women are equal in today's society, our paychecks still show a difference. Nationwide, women are making 77 cents to the dollar compared to men in the same job for workers over 16 (though it does drop to 71 cents for women and men over 25 and college-educated). That's...

A new study tells women that the difficulties they encounter advancing in the corporate world could be, at least partially, self-inflicted. No, you don't need to brace yourself for a Larry Summers-style remark. Rather, this is a situation of untapped potential. Female managers are three times more...

For years, we've heard about the glass ceiling for women. This imaginary thing that holds them back from moving up the corporate ladder, especially when it comes to upper management positions. I believe that it no longer exists on a wide scale, and that women are represented in extremely small...

This morning someone sent me a link to an article, expecting me to be outraged at the "sexist pig" who wrote it. Sadly, I fully agree with Steve Chapman of the Chicago Tribune, that the supposed pay gap between men and women in corporate America is a myth.I made no friends at WalletPop when I wrote...

The longer I'm in the business world, the more I believe that there is no such thing as a "glass ceiling" for women. At one time, I think it did exist. Women had few choices in the workplace in the 1950's and 1960's, and often had to pick between being a teacher, a nurse, or a secretary. It was...