It is pretty unhealthy if it's all men. I'm more open than the men. Management heeded her request, hiring a former colleague from a failed dotcom. For some women, especially those with children, long hours are an issue - causing them to avoid certain occupations. This is also regarded as one reason why full-time working women get paid, on average, about 72.2 percent of men's annual earnings.
Women often take on greater, more time-consuming family responsibilities than men.
On average, they work 92 percent of the hours of men. Women physicians who are unmarried and have no children, for instance, earn 13 percent more per year than those who are married and 15 percent more than those with children, according to a study by Alicia Sasser, a Harvard economist. In many industries, gender shifts have stemmed in part from changes in the supply of skilled laborers. Women were able to move into accounting in greater numbers as the supply of men became exhausted. Women like Sundaram are starting to find jobs in high-tech areas as more of them take computer science courses and other engineering courses in college.