All the Stats on Women in Business

Updated 6/19/2020

Ever been the only woman on your team or in your b-school class? Good news: it's getting rarer. Take a look at the numbers—from GMAT-takers to CEOs—and see how women are stacking up these days.

Ever been the only woman on your team or in your b-school class? This snapshot of women in business school, the post-MBA job market, and the C-suite offers some good news: More women are taking the GMAT than ever before, and the salary gap between genders is shrinking—at least in the U.S.

The flip side: We still make up a sad, sad fraction of Fortune 500 executives. And the highest-paid female CEO, Carol Bartz, makes a lot less than the highest-paid male—$40.3 million less, to be exact.

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