July 22, 2005 10:32 PM
Women are making progress, but then again, so are glaciers
Posted by Diane Danielsonat 10:32 PM
Describing the progress of women on corporate boards and in the corner office as "glacial" the Economist takes a look at the glass ceiling around the world.
It is progress of a sort—but of a glacially slow sort. The glass-ceiling phenomenon is proving peculiarly persistent. The top of the corporate ladder remains stubbornly male, and the few women who reach it are paid significantly less than the men that they join there.