• Only 3-5% of senior management positions are held by women.
  
• Almost 93 % of the 439 senior women executives surveyed by Korn/Ferry International in 1992 felt that a glass ceiling for women still existed.
  
• Only 6.9 % of the seats on corporate boards of directors were held by women in 1994. 
  
• Of the female senior managers in Fortune 1000 industrial and Fortune 500 service industries in 1992, 95% were white women, 2.3% were African American women, 1.8% were Asian American women and only .2 % were Latinas.
  
• Although 23 % of the female workforce is made up of women of color, only 15% of female managers are members of minority groups. 
  
• The percentage of women in executive, administrative and managerial positions rose from 17.6% in 1972 to 43.8% in 1996.
• The percentage of women architects rose from 3% in 1972 to 16.7% in 1996. 
  
• The percentage of women construction workers rose from less than 1% prior to 1980 to 2.6% in 1996. 
  
• The percentage of women physicians rose from 10% in 1972 to 26.4% in 1996. 
  
• The number of women business owners has exploded since the beginning of affirmative action programs. In 1972, there were 402,205 women business owners in the US. By 1996, that number had jumped to 7,950,000.
  
• From 1983 to 1996, the percentage of women in U.S. police forces rose from 9.4% to 17.2%. 
  
• From 1983 to 1996, the percentage of women firefighters in the U.S. more than doubled—from 1.0% to 2.1%.

All statistics are from Keeping the Door Open, an Equal Rights Advocates Publication.