Gender Gap in Salaries

I thought some readers might be interested in this article by Ben Gose of the Chronicle of Philanthropy, September 27, 2010

Female executives are receiving a smaller percentage of the total compensation paid by charities, even though the proportion of charity leaders who are women continues to rise, a new study has found.

The proportion of chief executives who are women edged higher in 2008, to nearly 47 percent, according to an annual survey by GuideStar, an organization in Williamsburg, Va., that collects the informational tax forms that nonprofit groups are required to file with the Internal Revenue Service. Yet female leaders continue to be much more heavily represented at smaller charities. Women held 57 percent of the chief-executive positions at organizations with budgets of $1-million or less but only 38 percent of the top positions at organizations with budgets of more than $1-million.

Read more at http://philanthropy.com/article/Gender-Gap-in-Nonprofit/124621/