Also, of all the companies surveyed only 13 percent of them said that they had more than one minority in their executive suite. Also while women have seen an increase that has actually out numbered the number of men in professional ranks, women only account for a mere 10 percent of the total number of executive officers in the top 25 companies on Long Island. While women are getting the short end of the stick in the respect to jobs, women and other minorities are also not getting paid as much as men are. Of the 500 highest paid executives on the island and queens only 19 of them were female. That works out to be about 3.8 percent of the 500 executives. In the highest paid and the fastest growing type of business which happens to be technology, management here is represented less than in any other type of business. All women and most minorities excluding Asian Americans hold few to no jobs in this field that includes the manufacturing of computers, communication devices, and other kinds of electronic equipment. Along with technology, the stock brokerage field and securities firms all also some of the toughest fields for minorities and women to obtain a job in. The interesting thing about the problem of diversity in management is that the people who have the power to open these positions to minorities and women, namely the CEO’s of these companies, don’t see a problem. The fact is that of the companies surveyed, half the executive said that they see no barriers to women that would prevent them from reaching the executive level. Also, one third of these executives also said that there is no barrier that would prevent minorities from reaching the same executive level. Another example of this kind of discrimination is the fact that more than half of all the workers surveyed said that they knew of a fellow women or minority employee that had the potential to move up to CEO of the company they were working for while of the executives that were asked the same question only one third of them said that they recognized that employee as an actual contender. (Gordon, p. A5-A7) Despite that fact that these companies fail to have the same kind of diversity in their management as there are in the local area, they will in the long run find it hard to do business due to the fact that your business has failed to keep up with the changes that taking place in the market place which are partially due to the increase of diversity. For instance, as

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