Women on Top of Big Business

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A record number of women will -- fortune 500 companies next year eighteen -- -- 500.

Should we be cheering a link who -- CEO of lifestyle network be five media says absolutely not.

It's still a very low number and we should never be.

Dissatisfied with the number growing but 1% in the last seven years is not what I would or many people would have expected.

Still the trend is moving in the right direction but obstacles remain for females in corporate America.

Here's the view from the CEO of interview dot com.

Trade offs.

That everyone has to me but in particular women and you look at the stats 65%.

-- startups are actually created by people thirty and over.

Those are those years for -- have to think about creating family -- and having a personal life that's why many aren't willing to put in the -- and hours to start their own companies the US global entrepreneurship monitor finds that no more than 5% of start -- are led by women.

Men are.

Eight times more likely to receive funding -- women and start ups.

And so this becomes.

Right off about it disadvantage for women the other factor is on balance and start -- take.

A lot of blood sweat tears and and all of your time and content to start up a company you really have to put the business person and Stanley and -- second.

But don't be discouraged Amy -- co-founder of Hillary -- -- bar certainly isn't we had people that we looked and said hey if they can do exceptionally.

And there's a lot of and passers that are full now we are a team of all women.

And a lot of them are married and we'll have chance women's research group catalyst finds while only 3% of women are CEOs.

15% on the boards of directors and 14% are executives.

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