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The Profession Where Women Make 61% Of What Men Make

  

An excerpt from "The Profession Where Women Make 61% Of What Men Make": 

Constance Stone, a recently retired planner in Chagrin Falls, OH, agrees. “The financial industry has always been heavily dominated and controlled by men,” she says. “I recall occasions when assisting me was put on the back burner in favor of projects for men, when staff was specifically instructed to prioritize mine equally. This enables men to succeed with less effort than women in the same positions.”

Stone wasn’t surprised at all by the 61.3% statistic. “The only time in my nearly 30-year financial planning career that I was paid on par with my male counterparts was in my own practice,” she says.

 

To read the full article, go to:  http://www.forbes.com/sites/kateashford/2015/02/26/women-make-less/

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