A new survey by InHerSight, a website which providesinformation based on user ratings of how employers treat women, finds men oftenoverestimate the access women in their organization have to toppositions.

Women in entry-level positions also seem to perceive a greaterlevel of gender equality in the workplace than women who arefurther along in their careers.

While 42 percent of women say they are satisfied with the genderbalance among workers when they began their careers, only 27percent of women in management roles say there are enough otherwomen in their position.

While the gender-based pay gap is decreasing between men andwomen in equivalent positions, the gulf between what men and womenmake in the U.S. remains significant, largely because men continueto dominate the upper-echelon of corporate leadership.

Less than 5 percent of Fortune 500 companies are led by femalechief executives, and many other C-suite positions in corporateAmerica are also overwhelmingly male.

A study this summer found that women only account for 24 percentof CEOs, chief financial officers, chief marketingofficers, chief information officers and chief human resourceofficers. While women make up 55 percent of HR chiefs, theyaccount for only 29 percent of CMOs, 19 percent of CIOs and 12percent of CFOs.

As a result, a number of studies have found women make about 76 percent as much as men.

One of the common explanations for the gender pay gap is thefact that women remain far more likely than men to leave theworkforce — permanently or temporarily — to raise children. Takingeven a short break from a career might prevent a woman fromprogressing in the organization as quickly as a malecounterpart.

As a result, workers advocates are increasingly calling foremployers to offer parental leave to both mothers and fathers,rather than simply maternity leave after a pregnancy. If more menbegin to take paternity leave, the hope is that employers will nolonger necessarily see pregnancy as an issue that only affectsfemale workers and will therefore be less likely to invoke(consciously or subconsciously) the potential of pregnancy to nothire or promote women.