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What the numbers say about diversity on corporate boards

  • Written by Richie Zweigenhaft, Professor of Psychology, Emeritus, Guilford College
imageCorporate diversity efforts have resulted in more women and minorities sitting on boards. Getty Images

Through the decades, corporate boards have been mostly white and mostly male.

That started changing in the early 1970s. Fueled by the historic gains of the Civil Rights Movement that broke down racial and gender barriers, a variety of social...

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