Catherwood LibraryILR School

A report released by the General Accounting Office of the U.S. Congress shows that in the ten industries employing the greatest percentage of women, women still make up only twelve percent of corporate officers and that between 1995 and 2000 the salaries of female managers decreased significantly relative to those of male managers. The study revealed that while female managers made gains in education, medicine, and public administration, they lost heavily in the entertainment and communications industries. Lack of accommodation for women who have children seems a likely cause of these increases in income disparity, as the report indicates that mothers in management positions fair the worst---making only sixty-six percent of what managers who are fathers make---and that the disparities begin to surface around the age of thirty-three and accelerate with increasing age.