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"   This year, important women&amp;#039;s issues like single motherhood, access to birth control, equal pay, and what actually constitutes rape took center stage, especially during the election. However, despite how crucial the &amp;quot;women&amp;#039;s vote&amp;quot; seemed to be, and even though high-profile ladies, like Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer, continue to make cracks at that ever-looming glass ceiling, we still have a long way to go, baby, when it comes to workplace equality. Particularly those high-profile\u2014and high-paying\u2014jobs. According to the two new reports (the 2012 Catalyst Census: Fortune 500 Women Board Directors and 2012 Catalyst Census: Fortune 500 Executive Officers and Top Earners), women only hold a meager eight percent of top-earning positions. What&amp;#039;s more, only 14.3 percent of executive officer positions belong to women, a figure that hasn&amp;#039;t budged for a third straight year. For minority women, the situation is even more dismal\u2014women of color held only 3.3 percent of board seats this year (no growth from the previous year), and more than two-thirds of Fortune 500 companies have had no women of color board directors for the fifth consecutive year. The fact that women continue to be passed over for top positions is, clearly, completely antiquated, especially when we&amp;#039;ve more than proven ourselves in intelligence and capability: women continue earn more college degrees than men do, plus, 2012 marked the first year that women&amp;#039;s IQ test scores collectively surpassed men&amp;#039;s.  We want to hear from you: Why do you think men still overwhelmingly out-earn and out-rank women? Tell us what you think in the comments.  Want more from Natasha? Follow her on Twitter or find her on Facebook. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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