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The Highest-Paid Woman CEO Was Born A Man

Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2014 12:08 am
by Bob Of Burleson
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Martine Rothblatt

By Henry Blodget
InsideBusiness.com

Next time you're contemplating the pay gap between male and female executives, put this fact in your pipe and smoke it:

The highest-paid woman CEO was born a man.

That's what the New York Times' Claire Cain Miller observed in her recent article about a study of CEO pay.

The CEO in question is named Martine Rothblatt. She was born Martin Rothblatt. She founded Sirius Satellite Radio in 1994, as Martin, then had a sex-change operation. Then she founded United Therapeutics in 1996 and has served as its CEO ever since. She made $38 million last year, mostly in stock options.

That $38 million put Ms. Rothblatt a fair ways above the second-highest paid woman CEO on the New York Times' list, Marissa Mayer of Yahoo. Mayer made $25 million.

Those are big pay packages. And, in fact, the average female CEO on the list makes only $1.6 million less than the average male CEO (a statistical wash, apparently, once you adjust for relative ages and experience).

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/the-high ... z34D0to4nX

Re: The Highest-Paid Woman CEO Was Born A Man

Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2014 6:47 am
by Red Oak
Gee I thought Chromosomes were "settled science" ?

Re: The Highest-Paid Woman CEO Was Born A Man

Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2014 8:42 am
by GFB
The Highest-Paid Woman CEO is A Man.


..fixed it.

Re: The Highest-Paid Woman CEO Was Born A Man

Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2014 2:09 am
by jellowrestling
GFB wrote:The Highest-Paid Woman CEO is A Man.
..fixed it.

Yep