I n the course of a lifetime women have made great strides in their quest towards equal opportunities in the workplace. Indeed, we see many more women in charge oflarge organizations like Hewlett Packard and the Body

Shop. At a closer look, however, women (and members of other minorities) are still severely underrepresented in profeSSional and managerial jobs and disproportionately overrepresented in special staff jobs that have no line responsibility as well as in job categories that fit the stereotypically female domains of helping others (e.g., human resources and customer services; see Henderson, 1994) .