Wayne State University is holding a conference Nov. 4 to discuss why women continue to lag in earnings, benefits and rank within U.S. businesses. The conference comes on the heels of the Michigan Women\'s Leadership Index report, released earlier this week, that shows that Michigan \'s top female executives make 49 cents to every dollar male executives make. It also revealed that just 5.7% of all top-compensated executives are women. The conference, called Gender and Corporate Citizenship, runs from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and is free and open to the public.