Angela Ahrendts, CEO of Burberry, is the first woman to become the Executive better paid in Great Britain

An Executive American woman has finally reached the top ranks of the payment of a nation.

Burberry, a native of Indiana, Angela Ahrendts, CEO is now the Executive better paid in Britain, according to a survey of manifest, a British group of corporate governance and pay consultant MM K &, cited by the Guardian. 16.9 Million pounds, the package of payment ' Ahrendts is nearly 5 million pounds more than the next most senior British Executive paid, according to the Guardian.

While achievement ' Ahrendts mark an important step forward for the women of high power on either side of the pond, women in both countries still faces many obstacles to reach the position ' Ahrendts. In Great Britain, Ahrendts is one of only three CEOs women running major companies in the country. In the United States, women represent only 4 percent of CEOs at S & P 500 companies.

Despite the position of ' Ahrendts as one of the few females in the top of the corporate ladder, she opposes possible policy changes that could help other British women get. Ahrendts said last year that she is not in favor of quotas requiring that a certain number of women is present on the boards of the companies, according to the Telegraph.

"Just put the best person at work. It is not about gender, it's experience, leadership and vision. "" A man can do this job, he said.

That may be true, but often men are becoming much more to do so. ' Ahrendts pay - that amounts to about $26.2 million - pales in comparison to some of their male counterparts American. CEO of Oracle Larry Ellison for example, earned $96 million last year, according to CNNMoney.

Of course equality in the workplace is not a problem only that women face in the upper part, the pay gap also exists for ordinary women. In the United States, working, made about 80% of what their male counterparts earned last year, as the gender wage gap expanded. And in Britain, the global gender pay gap was around the 19.7 percent last year, according to a report from the guardian.

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