ve that “women do not receive equal pay for comparable jobs.” In a Wall Street Journal/ Gallup poll, more than four out of five women executives say “there are disadvantages to being female in the business world.” It is still a very unfair atmosphere for women. Women in high places however are working to make this change. Entrepreneurial Women Battling for WomenEntrepreneurial women are also helping one another, and other women in business. It is still difficult for a woman trying to start a business. Many men won’t take her seriously and she will have difficulty attaining loans. Women are helping each other a lot though. There are many support groups, both physical and online. Resources for women in business are becoming abundant as well. Women are really working together to make things change. Woman Who Have Made It BigAlthough the numbers aren’t yet equal, there are still some very powerful women out there. The following business women were ranked according to Fortune magazine. The most powerful woman in the world is Marjorie Scardino. She heads up Pearson PLC, a FTSE 100 company, as CEO. She is the only woman to head up a FTSE 100 company. Since being in charge, she has made the price of Pearson’s stock go up from $11 per share to around $30 per share. The second most powerful woman in business is Fabiola Arredondo, who is the managing director of Yahoo! Europe. She tells woman in business to “focus on operational positions where you have responsibility for profit and loss, that way it’s easy to measure whether you’re doing a good job.” The third most powerful woman in the world is Sari Baldauf, who is the president of Nokia Networks. She says that many people she had met when she was first starting out assumed that she was only a secretary (more proof of workplace discrimination). As president of Nokia Network Equipment she generates over $6.5 bi...
