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I think the number will continue to go up for a while (92 out of 1000 is still disproportionately low), but the way they're extrapolating doesn't make sense to me. Women only seriously entered the workforce fairly recently and it has taken time for them to make their way up the ranks; of course the numbers are going up, and they'll keep going up for a while, but eventually the trend will flatten out.
The flimsy rationale of education and long life doesn't speak to me either. Better grades (if that's even true - sure as hell isn't in engineering disciplines) doesn't correlate very well with high earnings, especially when it comes to millionaires who are usually entrepreneurs with limited education. And although technically a longer life means an exponentially increasing savings, there's not that much difference between men and women when it comes to the desired retirement age.
Love this quote, too:
| quote: | | Women make up only a tenth of the directors of FTSE-100 firms. They are also under-represented in the upper echelons of management. In a report in March, PricewaterhouseCoopers, an accountancy firm, said that the number of female senior managers in FTSE-350 firms had fallen by 40% since 2002. This may be due to a prevailing macho culture at the top; or it may reflect the costs of child care, which have risen by 27% in the same period. |
Nope, there's no bias in the media. Move along folks, nothing to see here...
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(first i gotta find a rich girl tho)
