Spotlight on Women in Business from Free-Market. To add insult to injury, after years of depositing their discounted paychecks, women are said to smack their heads against a glass ceiling on advancement that dims their hopes of ever catching up with male colleagues. That's enough to wrinkle your navy-blue suit.
Nobody likes getting cut off at the knees or paid less than other folks for doing the same job.
Well, we all know that sexism, like racism, does exist. There's the guy in accounting who cracks wise with the blonde jokes. We may have even let a few cracks slip ourselves. All this certainly seems like fertile ground for more pernicious slights against women in the workforce. According to Diana Furchtgott-Roth and Christine Stolba, who prepared a report for the Independent Women's Forum and the American Enterprise Institute, women have been enthusiastically hopping their way up the career ladder over the past few years.