职场高层缺乏女性参与

然而，除了被剥夺在大公司坐上自己梦寐以求职位的机会外，全球范围的职场女性们还面临一系列的其他歧视问题。
Apart from being denied the opportunity to occupy coveted seats at the biggest companies, businesswomen around the world face a whole range of other discriminative problems.

美国社会学家、"Selling Women Short: Gender and Money on Wall Street "一书作者Louise Marie Roth举例说明了华尔街极度的性别不平等现象。她跟踪记录了76位毕业于一流商业学校男女的职业发展。20世纪90年代，他们一起在大型投资公司起步。然而，到1997年，女性薪酬数量仅占男性的60.5%。
Louise Marie Roth, an American sociologist and author of "Selling Women Short: Gender and Money on Wall Street", illustrated the extreme gender inequality on Wall Street. She followed the career development of 76 male and female grads of top business schools. They all began work at big investment firms in the early 1990s. By 1997, the women were earning only 60.5 percent of what the men did.

另一位美国教授Linda Babcock发现，要求提薪的女性职工会被鄙视，甚至遭到处罚。而相同形势下，男同事得到的对待显然要亲切得多。其他调查显示，因工作发怒的男性一般会得到尊敬，而同样的事情发生在女性身上就成了“失控”。
Linda Babcock, another American professor, notes that women are looked down on, and even punished, for asking for a pay raise. Meanwhile, their male colleagues are much more favorably treated in similar situations. Other studies show that men who get angry at work are more likely to be respected for it, while women who do so are seen as being "out of control".

因此，为遏制职场如此猖獗的性别歧视现象，很多政府已经出台法律法规帮助女性得到平等对待。
To combat such rampant discrimination in business, various governments have passed laws and regulations to help put women on a more equal footing。

1963年，尽管强制实行面临很大困难，美国仍发布了薪资平等法，禁止雇主由于性别原因给予不同工资待遇。2006年，欧盟采用欧洲社会宪章的日常生活中男女平等制度，要求男女平等是一项基本权利，“性别成见及其产生的观点和假设都必须消除”。
The US introduced the Equal Pay Act (EPA) in 1963, to "prohibit discrimination on account of sex in the payment of wages by employers", although enforcing it may be hard. In 2006, the European Union adopted The European Charter for Equality of Women and Men in Local Life. The charter says that equality between women and men is a fundamental right, and that "gender stereotypes and the attitudes and assumptions that arise from them must be eliminated."