Saturday, January 16, 2021

Women at the top of the world, still not at the center: A new network analysis discovery - Tuugi Chuluun and Kevin L. Young, Brookings Institution

For example, only 37 of the companies listed on the Fortune 500 list this year have women CEOs. And only three of them are women of color. Within the public sector, several countries such as Rwanda and Argentina have instituted gender quota systems to increase the representation of women in government. As a result of these and other changes and reforms, the last couple of decades have seen some progress in increasing the number of women holding various positions of leadership globally. However, women, and especially women of color, remain dramatically underrepresented, and the coronavirus pandemic threatens progress we have made on this front because of gender inequality in the division of housework.

https://www.brookings.edu/essay/women-at-the-top-of-the-world-still-not-at-the-center-a-new-network-analysis-discovery/