Women simply have to work harder to achieve the same ends. In the US, the average woman makes 74% of a man's salary. When you get into the executive ranks, women often make less than 70% of a man's salary.

I run into this issue all the time -- I know for a fact that I make 25% less than a male colleague of mine who started on the same date I did at my company and has the same title.

Plus...in my company (I work in a traditional main-line industry) business is done in the golf course locker room, in strip clubs, in the ski lodge, and other such places...where I am simply not welcome.

So...yes...it is true. There are not many talented successful women (although there are more than there used to be!), and it is *far* easier to get money by luring in the right guy.

But I prefer real challenges.

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Life is too short not to love and be loved....preferably multiple times in one night.

I think men talk to women so they can sleep with them and women sleep with men so they can talk to them. ~ Jay McInerney