25 best-paying jobs for women

The research is grossly mis-informed.  I am a female professional in the field of engineering (I wish to stay annonymous to protect my career potential).  I find the largest reason that women do not make it very far in this field is the continuous discouragement by the established male dominated hierarchy in engineering, construction, etc.. fields.  I regularly run into older male executives who can't comprehend a female having the aptitude and somehow feel their manhood is threatened by a female who can succeed in the profession.  They react in defense and automatically focus on promoting from the good ol' boys club.  Male employees are recognized with continual career development in more challenging tasks.  While the female employees are shuffled off into support positions, i.e. clerk, human resources or proposal writing.  It isn't that the woman wishes any less than her male counterparts to go farther, it is the social belief that these positions are where women are more 'comfortable' and therefore belong.  I continually find myself being compared to the receptionist by higher management.  They continually seem to appear suprised that I wish to go farther and am not satisfied doing the grunt work for a male counterpart who has less seniority in the company.  Of course I am catching on to the technical aspects faster than the other women on the team, I have an engineering degree.  Why am I not being compared to my counterparts?  Why am I not compared to peers of my profession?  It usually boils down to one fact; I am the only female among roughly 30 males (as an estimate of company statistics).  With a long entrenched male corporate hierarchy there is little to be done.  Those above who are moving the pieces around the board and up the ladder feel I would be more 'comfortable' in a support role, regardless of my performance to the contrary.  As time goes on the female employees top out at what the company will allow them to do.  So you either accept the role the company has chosed for you, i.e. as human resources, to continue at your pay rate and benefits; or you quit the company and move on to something else.  Probably something in a field more socially acceptable as a 'comfortable' role for females where your contribution and potential will be recognized.  You don't agree?  Why else would a 30 something female with a degree in engineering be working as human resources?  Typically those good with engineering are good with numbers not people.

Sorry Kaitlin to disagree with you, it is not the first time I do, and I thought I would leave you a note here. My wife is an architect and she never earned anything close to what men are paid and was never given the opportunity for advancement like men. In short, a male-pig-shauvinist society is still ruling out there. Worst than that, she was even among the first layed off at the beginning of the recession and architecture took a hard hit, since it all went down due to the housing market, and it hasent' yet picked back up. I found it outrageously disgusting that openly women don't earn as much as men, and it is nothing else than due to the fact that the society has been created by men for men, and many men still occupy key positions and are blocking the way to many women. Add to this the fact that many families still think that the place of a woman is in the kitchen and at home to take care of the children and house, and you have it. Some of these "trends' are even found deep in many "religious cultures" as there too men are all important and empowered supposedly by God. It is time to push things back into their place. Real equality will come when there will be a woman Presiden, a women Pope,and why not a female God ("the unique God"). The only reason I see why women are not getting paid like men, is because men are usually the bosses, are self-centered, and very few are feminist.

Seguimos siendo las mujeres las peores pagadas,  Creéis que algún día cambiara?