Aug 14, 2006

American women earn substantially more money and narrow the long-standing gender gap in income if other women in their workplaces reach the ranks of senior management, according to a new national study presented here….

“The glass ceiling is about all women, not just women who become managers,” said Philip N. Cohen, a sociologist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill who announced the study here Friday at the 101st meeting of the American Sociological Association. “If women break through the glass ceiling, it helps other women.”

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