A key disconnect: Women directors and key committee assignments

 

In the past decade, the state of women on boards has improved. With significant interest and attention focused on the number of women who sit on boards, there has been a shift in the Fortune 500 with the percentage of boards that are now more than 32% female having almost quadrupled in that time. While some will look at the trend positively, others will point to the fact that there was only one board in both 2006 and 2016 with more than 50% of its members being female.

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