The higher up the leadership ladder you look,
the fewer women are
found. The broken rung
at the first step of the ladder has a lot to do with it, because
women are stopped from advancing
into management positions for many
reasons. A leaky pipeline is another
reason, meaning that women get into
management only to drop out. Even
when they do continue to climb,
women are over-represented in support functions, like human resources
and administration and under-represented in operations and profit
and loss functions. The gender gap
persists, and it is due to factors such
as organizational culture, compensation differences between men and
women, and human resources ....