A new survey offers an illuminating glimpse at the way gendershapes workers’ perceptions about their career opportunities.

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The survey of more than 3,000 employees by CareerBuilder findsmen anticipate much higher pay than their female counterparts andare more likely to expect to reach positions in corporateleadership.

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Forty-four percent of men say they expect to eventually make$100,000, more than double the percentage of women (20 percent) whoexpect the same.

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Similarly, men (9 percent) are more than twice as likely aswomen (4 percent) to believe they will one day own a company.

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The gender gap is narrower when it comes to other leadershippositions. Nearly as many women (27 percent) expect to reach aposition as manager as men (29 percent).

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However, women are more than twice as likely as men to believethey will not advance beyond an entry-level, administrative orclerical role: 22 percent compared to 10 percent.

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One of the most obvious barriers to female advancement in theworkplace remains pregnancy and childcare. The latterresponsibility continues to fall disproportionately on women,whether they are in a committed relationship with the other parentor single.

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The CareerBuilder survey does not shed light on the impactpeople believe having children has on their careers, but it doesshow that most young workers say they want to delay having kidsuntil they are established in their careers.

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Sixty-three percent of women say they want to wait until atleast 30 to have children, while 15 percent would like to waituntil 35. Roughly the same percentage of men (64 percent) say theywant to wait until 30, but twice as many (30 percent) say theywould like to hold off until 35.

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“The majority of workers over the age of 25 postpone familyplans to focus on their careers, but there is a vast difference inwhat men and women expect to actually get out of their jobs,”Rosemary Haefner, chief human resources officer at CareerBuilder,tells BenefitsPRO. “Women tend to expect lower level positions andlower annual compensation than men. There is still much work to doin encouraging women to pursue higher positions.”

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