According to the BLS, the median annual salary for an accountant was $67,190 in 2015. The best-paid 10 percent earned roughly $118,930, while the lowest-paid made approximately $41,400. The best-compensated accountants work in the fields of securities and commodity contracts intermediation and brokerage and for the federal executive branch.
Did any countries other than America let women serve in WW2 Wow. Yes indeed they did. Russia allowed women to serve on the front line, many were fighter or bomber pilots, dozens of Russian women snipers had kills in the hundreds... The British recruited women spies from a non-descript office in New York city, some trained in the art at Camp X in Canada and were dropped into occupied France - if captured [and some were] a quick death was the hoped for result, a slow death by torture most likely.
While they wield tremendous power over some of the world's most powerful economies, their colleagues still lag when it comes to welding political influence. The United States and most European countries have a smaller proportion of women in government than the world average, according to data from the World Bank. At last calculation, women held the largest proportion of parliament seats in Latin American and Caribbean governments (25.5%) in 2012, followed by sub-Saharan African nations (21.5%). With only 18 percent of congressional seats held by women, the United States fell below the world average of 20.8 percent.