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Percentage of Women in Boardrooms Takes a Hit

After more than a decade of increasing representation of women in boardrooms and at the executive level of companies, the rise of women in the workplace at the top-most ranks has begun to plateau. In 2010,  25.4% of chief executives were women, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, slightly up from 2009 but below 2007's level of 25.6%. Between 2000 and 2007, women's share of the chief executive ranks had increased by 6.8 percentage points. On Feb. 28, the White House released a report that, among other things, noted that women have met, and in some cases surpassed, men in educational achievement but still lag in pay and are more likely to be in poverty. Click here to read more.
 
 



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