Justin Fox, Columnist

Women Don't Get to Run Top Board Committees

Plenty of evidence suggests it would pay off for their companies.

April 3, 2017 at 8:04 PM UTC

Justin Fox is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering business, economics and other topics involving charts. A former editorial director of the Harvard Business Review, he is author of “The Myth of the Rational Market.”

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Women now hold about a fifth of board seats at big U.S. companies.1491228901559 That share has gone up over the past couple of decades; in 1999 just 11.2 percent of Fortune 500 board members were women. But what kind of roles and responsibilities are these women getting?

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