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caseymoz

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15. It seems in the 1 percent, this reverses.
Sat Mar 2, 2013, 08:45 PM
Mar 2013

Only 12 Fortune 500 companies have female CEOs (2.4%). There are 97 women in Congress (18.1%) and only 24.2 percent of state legislatures are women.

(Those figures were uncovered through a routine Google search and are easy to verify.)

In finance, women are 2.5% of the chief executives (similar to Fortune 500 companies) and 16.8% of the number of executive officers.

http://www.20-first.com/1411-0-the-situation-of-women-in-the-finance-industry-of-the-us.html

Also, (same source) women are leaving the finance industry at a rate of 141,000 over a decade, while the number of men increased 389,000. This has driven the percentage of males in the industry up by 9.1 percent.

I'm not arguing with your numbers. I'm just saying that women are under-represented among people who are the real decision-makers in the country.

This also suggests what we already know, that the 1% hold themselves by different rules than what they impose on the rest of us.
The FAQ [View all] lumberjack_jeff Jan 2012 OP
Economy lumberjack_jeff Jan 2012 #1
It seems in the 1 percent, this reverses. caseymoz Mar 2013 #15
the thing is shaayecanaan Apr 2014 #16
Health Care lumberjack_jeff Jan 2012 #2
Post removed Post removed Jan 2012 #3
Justice lumberjack_jeff Jan 2012 #4
Institutional discrimination lumberjack_jeff Jan 2012 #5
Education lumberjack_jeff Jan 2012 #6
Society lumberjack_jeff Jan 2012 #7
Society: women make 85% of all consumer purchases lumberjack_jeff Mar 2012 #8
Do they count joint purchases as being made by women? shawn703 May 2012 #9
That is my understanding, yes. lumberjack_jeff May 2012 #10
Those statistics sound a little fishy. Warren DeMontague May 2012 #11
I would prefer a primary source too. lumberjack_jeff May 2012 #12
Check with Marketing websites craichead65 Oct 2012 #13
Even the post is 5 months old Warren DeMontague Oct 2012 #14
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