The gender gap is alive and well here in BC

[mahogany]

Last week’s issue (I’m a bit behind on my reading) of Business in Vancouver featured a list of the top paid BC Executives. Out of a list of fifty people, guess how many were women? One. Jan Marsten of Terasen Gas at spot number 33.

This is 2006 for crying out loud! Stuff like this is just too glaring to ignore (and don’t even get me started on how many people of colour - any colour - there are (aren’t) on that list).

I cling to the belief that we have equal opportunities in this country to make anything that we want of ourselves; that, to a very large extent, we are responsible for our success or lack thereof. Reading this makes me foam at the mouth.

Yes, I know there are other measures of success, and no I don’t think that people need to be making $26 million a year to be successful, and blah, de blah, blah, blah...but all that is irrelevant. I think it’s an outrage that this particular form of success has eluded women to this degree.

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Nice work if you can get it...

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Perhaps it says more about women's values compared to men's? I don't know. Since I decided I really wanted to get married and have kids it put a damper on wanting to make money. That being said, I am sure there are plenty of women out there who would love to be making 10s of millions of dollars.