Six Smoking Hot CEOs

Six Smoking Hot CEOs

Executive compensation is a big topic around the water cooler these days. The financial crisis and government bailouts put the spotlight on egregious and outlandish pay packages.

Perhaps one of the unintended consequences of the outrage will be to highlight the disparity between female and male compensation. As hard as it may be to believe in this day and age, women tend to be paid less for the same work.

For example, Lynn Elsenhans, the only women running a major oil company, was paid $2.2 million by Sunoco (SUN) in 2008. By comparison, Bruce Smith of rival Tesoro (TSO) took home $18.6 million.

While there may be perfectly good reasons for the disparity, I suspect Ms. Elsenhans is ultimately getting paid less for performing the same job. Where is the outrage about such blatant discrimination?

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