Women feel twice as likely as men to get passed over for job promotion or other opportunity because of their gender, a new survey shows.
Women feel twice as likely as men to get passed over for job promotion or other opportunity because of their sex, a new survey shows.
Despite ongoing efforts to shatter the glass ceiling, a Gallup work and education survey found 12% of women say their gender prevented them from advancing during some point of their career compared with just 5% of men.
The gender gap is even larger when it comes to getting a raise. The Gallup poll found that 17% of working women believe they have been denied a raise because of their sex, compared with 4% among men.
At the same time, climbing the corporate latter is just as important to men as it is to women, with 59% of men and 56% of women saying it was extremely or very important, the poll found.
Notably, 19% of women said getting ahead wasn’t important, down significantly from two years ago when 28% said it didn’t matter.
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By and large, men are more satisfied with their jobs than women, especially when it comes to pay. Just 20% of women said they were completely satisfied with their pay compared with 44% among men. Men also felt more secure about keeping their jobs than women and more comfortable with the amount of work required.
While the vast majority of both men and women said they were completely satisfied with their relationships with coworkers and workplace safety, they were less positive about their stress levels. Only 30% of men and 25% of women said they were completely satisfied with the amount of stress at work.
Gender differences in pay, promotions and job satisfaction contribute significantly to the lack of women in top corporate positions. Despite strong efforts to improve gender equality in the workplace, men continue to dominate corner offices. Only 5% of CEOs in the Fortune 500 companies and 17% of the corporate boards are women, according to the Pew Research Center.
Results of the Gallup poll were based on telephone interviews conducted Aug. 5-9 with a random sampling of 1,011 adults throughout the United States. It has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 6 percentage points.
