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By Bill Zlatos
TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Monday, November 14, 2005

Women who head nonprofit agencies in Pennsylvania have fallen into a 'pink collar ghetto' where their salaries lag way behind those earned by their male counterparts.

Beyond nonprofits, the continuing pay disparity between men and women is causing educated career women to leave the state -- including thousands from Western Pennsylvania in recent years, warned several local female executives.

Women are paid less than men whether the nonprofit is big or small, according to GuideStar, a Williamsburg, Va.-based group that collects data on nonprofit groups. But men tend to get the plum jobs at bigger agencies that can pay larger salaries, while most small nonprofits are headed by low-paid women, data show."