Some fields in corporate America seem to be more open to women than others. One such field is compliance. Some 60 percent of the members of the Society for Corporate Compliance and Ethics (SCCE) are women.

That is great news for women interested in the field, which no doubt include many with legal backgrounds, but there are also some reasons for concern, according to a recent article from Quartz.com.

Women who are compliance offers, need to “be in true leadership positions where they can actually move the dial on corporate ethics,” according to the article's author, Shanti Atkins, president of NAVEX Global, an ethics and compliance company.