As for graduate school and professional study, Figure 1 illustrates the steady rise in the number of professional degrees earned by women. Finally, their presence in Fortune 500 companies is not an accurate representation of women's success in the business world. Women desire more flexibility in their workplace and they are starting their own businesses in record numbers. The myth of the glass ceiling, a close relative of the pay-gap myth, continues to be a rallying cry for feminist groups and advocates of gender preferences. It would be false to suggest that discrimination no longer exists, but women's choices should not be systematically attributed to discrimination.
Women determine their role in the marketplace with a variety of personal choices.
As the facts confirm, women are actively fulfilling the roles they choose. Dominique Lazanski is a public policy fellow at the Pacific Research Institute.