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Very few women oversee US companies. Here's how to change that

  • Written by Yannick Thams, Assistant Professor of Strategy and International Business, Suffolk University
Men's dominance in the boardroom has barely changed over the years. Everett Collection/Shutterstock.com

Women’s participation in the labor force has soared over the past 50 years, rising from 32 percent in 1948 to 56.7 percent as of January.

Yet those gains have not translated into the U.S. corporate boardroom, where women held just 16.6...

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