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Since the Women’s Liberation Movement of the 1960s, women may have pushed open the front door of corporate America’s workforce, but as a gender, they have yet to fully represent their talent pool in upstairs board rooms and high leadership positions.
According to the research group Catalyst, while women made up 46.7% of the U.S. labor force in 2010, they held only 14.4% of the Fortune 500 executive officer positions and 15.7% of Fortune 500 board seats.
Koster is a Los Angeles-based freelance writer and former Employee Benefit News online managing editor.
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