To give this question which is in the minds of millions of people must have a deeper thought on it. Anyhow, according to a research conducted by the Catalyst, a non profit research  group, even though women represent 47.6 percent of today’s workforce at present, in the fortune 500 in 2011 they represent only 14.1 percent of executive officers, 7.5 percent of top earners and 3.2 percent of CEOs. The Catalyst also reported that less than one-fifth of companies had 25 percent or more women in the board directors.

According to the Conference Board, a Private Research Group, found in a recent study that even though 25 percent of women are filled in the Fortune 500 board seats which is available in annually, the percentage of female directors in that sample would only be about 23 percent by that year 2020, reports Joann S. Lublin from Wall Street Journal.

To fill this big difference between men and women the business leaders must first analyze the reason of why women are less in number when it comes to acquiring higher position at the professional level. The main reason which we all might have guessed is that of work - life balance. Many women fail to acquire higher positions for this reason. They find it very difficult to manage both the personal and professional life because of many reasons. The pressure on them will be too much and it sometimes leads negatively either on personal or professional life. So to avoid all these problems many of them sacrifice their professional life most of the time.