Women outpace men in earning advanced degrees and constitute a significant portion of the workforce, so the persistence of the limited progression to the C-suite and gender wage gap raises unsettling questions. Women hold only 8.6% of the CEO roles in the S&P 500 and only 10.6% of the Fortune 500. Further, Pew recently reported that mid-career women aged 35 to 54 earn only 83% of their male counterparts in comparable jobs, a statistic that has stagnated over the past two decades.
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