This year’s Women of Influence cover varied terrain, in terms of both professional disciplines and visibility. Some are in leasing and sales, while others are in finance or law; still others fit into their own categories. Some are household names while some have kept a lower profile. All, however, have excelled on their own terms.

Their accomplishments aside, this year’s honorees also stand out for a less positive reason: there are still disproportionately few women in commercial real estate. And even as greater numbers of women are now pursuing careers in the industry, a pay gap separates them from their male counterparts, according to Women in Commercial Real Estate, a five-year follow-up study spearheaded by one of this year’s honorees, Collete English Dixon, the president of CREW Network. Eight percent of women in the 2005 edition of the study earned between $100,000 and $250,000 per year; by 2010, that figure had increased to 11%.

The editors of Real Estate Forum received more than 200 nominations for this year’s Women of Influence feature. We selected 51 whose accomplishments were especially impressive.

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