The survey revealed good news and bad news. Clearly there was a compensation gap between men and women at all levels of management. However, the good news for women is that salaries increased in the '90s at a greater rate than men's.
Women are less likely than men to receive additional compensation in forms other than salary.
On average, men receive 85 percent of their compensation in salary and 15 percent in the form of performance bonuses, stock options and profit sharing. Women receive 91 percent of their compensation in salary. While those at higher compensation levels receive a greater share of compensation in non-salary forms, the gender discrepancy holds true even within the same compensation ranges. While the wage gap clearly persists, women executives have made gains in the 1990s. It should be noted that of the 76 respondents in this area, only seven of the CEOs were women.