If so, you have the advantage -
In our gender analysis of data women assessed their networks more positively than their male counterparts, giving themselves much higher "excellent" ratings.
Chart source: ExecuNet, 2007Dave Opton, CEO and founder of ExecuNet, offered a couple of non-scientific reasons for the divide. "Two-thirds more women than men said they worked on building their professional networking relationships 'very often;' and self-assessment is subjective and without universal measurement."
Despite their super networking skills, women are still less visible in the corporate executive suite than are men, and a 2004 study in the
American Journal of Business outlined some of the influential factors.
"Female executives do not achieve top ranked executive positions at the same frequency as do male executives. However, top female executives are significantly younger, and have fewer years of service with the company and in their job positions, than their male counterparts. This may be indicative of the movement to encourage and support women to achieve higher corporate positions, but it could also provide a reasonable explanation for the observed compensation gender gap," write Joanne Healy Burress and Linda J. Zucca in the report.
ExecuNet's proprietary research produced encouraging news: while the title and compensation gap exists, the differential was roughly just $20,000, and both genders expected about the same increase in wages from 2006 to 2007 — 7 percent.
Date from the 15th annual
Executive Job Market Intelligence Report by www.
ExecuNet.com 
