Beyond Fortune 500: Women in a Global Network of Directors

@inproceedings{Evtushenko2019BeyondF5,
  title={Beyond Fortune 500: Women in a Global Network of Directors},
  author={Anna Evtushenko and Michael T. Gastner},
  booktitle={COMPLEX NETWORKS},
  year={2019}
}
In many countries, the representation of women on corporate boards of directors has become a topic of intense political debate. Social networking plays a crucial role in the appointment to a board so that an informed debate requires knowing where women are located in the network of directors. One way to quantify the network is by studying the links created by serving on the same board and by joint appointments on multiple boards. We analyse a network of $\approx 320\,000$ board members of $36… 
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