There were "few, if any women at the highest levels of management" and those who did make it that far "were almost always in staff positions". According to the Feminist Majority Foundation, women make up only 3.1% of senior executives at fortune 500 companies and account for only 4.3 percent of executives in the Fortune service 500, despite the fact that 61% of all service workers are women. .
The Woman's Bureau has been a strong voice and a helping hand for workingwoman for 70 years. One of the oldest agencies in the U.S. Department of Labor, the Bureau was created by Congress on June 5, 1920, and given a mandate; "to formulate standards and policies which shall promote the welfare of wage-earning women, improve their working conditions, increase their efficiency and advance their opportunities for profitable employment." To remain in the forefront on issues, the Bureau initiates supports research and analyses in economic, social, and legislative areas and makes policy recommendations.
The United States is at the very least recognizing the problem and working on doing something about it. However Mexico is moving at a very slow pace. In Mexico's Constitution; Title VI, Labor and Social security article 123 b V states; Equal wages, shall be paid for equal work, without regard for sex. This has been for many years just a formality. While American woman are fighting to move up the corporate latter woman in Mexico are fighting to step one foot on the corporate latter. This can be accounted for, for many reasons. One reason is that Mexico is so " Old World" what I mean by this is there culture centers mostly around men and the woman live with there families until they get married and if they never marry they continue to live with there families. It is not common of a young 18-year-old girl to move out of her home and live by herself or with a roommate like it is of an American girl.
