25 best-paying jobs for women – CNN.com.

On Mother’s Day, along with apple pie, baseball and the American flag is motherhood , and, of course, the women who are mothers.  Most of them work.  But they are still not earning what the boys are.

“When you look at Forbes magazine’s most recent list of highest-paid CEO’s (chief executives of the 500 biggest companies in the United States), you won’t see a woman until No. 48: Irene B Rosenfeld, CEO of Kraft Foods.

In a country where women make up 47 percent of the workforce, women make up just 3 percent of Fortune 500 CEO’s. In addition, women who worked full time earned an average of just 80 percent of what men earned in the same positions in 2008, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.”

In probing deeper into this unfortunate dynamic for women, one might want to take a look at the BLS stats highlighting 25 jobs where women earn $1000 a week or more but still a fraction of their male counterparts:

Chief executives
Women – Median weekly earnings: $1,603
Men – Median weekly earnings: $1,999
Women’s earnings as percent of men’s in same occupation: 80.2%

Lawyers
Women – Median weekly earnings: $1,509
Men – Median weekly earnings: $1,875
Women’s earnings as percent of men’s in same occupation: 80.5%

Computer software engineers
Women – Median weekly earnings: $1,351
Men – Median weekly earnings: $1,555
Women’s earnings as percent of men’s in same occupation: 86.9%

For a compete list, go to 25 best-paying jobs for women – CNN.com.  And, if you have any suggestions on how to improve these stats, email us.

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