Human Resources departments are dominated by women 70 percent of the time, yet men in the field dominate when it comes to salary. The pay gap between male and female HR executives trickles down to every level of the department: In 2007, the median salary for male HR managers was 47 percent more than female paychecks, while male rank-and-file employees took home 28 percent more than their female counterparts.
One HR consultant assumes the gap could be blamed at least partially on the fact that many men in HR were executives at other firms who were recruited to their roles and enticed with the hefty compensation they were already earning.
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The gender pay gap is definitely not a thing of the past — the 77 cents that women make for every man's dollar in this country is a sure sign that gender inequality continues to plague the workplace. To put things in perspective, men make the equivalent of a woman's yearly salary by the time the first of September rolls around. Configured on a weekly basis, a woman must work until the following Tuesday to catch up to a man in an equivalent position. 
While the number of female officers among Fortune 500 firms steadily increased during the early and mid-1990s, that number has decreased each year since 2005 and stalled in 2007. Last year, the boards of Fortune 500 companies were represented with 
Alpha Female is hardly a new term but lately I've seen it used more liberally and more often. While nobody hesitates to describe an alpha male as such and there's not much confusion surrounding the male version of alpha, I found several definitions when I tried to get some light shed on the subject. In general, an alpha anything is someone who others defer to for leadership — maybe it's the community, your colleagues, or your girlfriends. 
