(Phys.org)—Women are reaching the upper echelons of business in record numbers—Marissa Mayer at Yahoo!, Meg Whitman at Hewlett-Packard, Ginni Rometty at IBM and Rosalind Brewer at Sam’s Club, to name a few. Even so, women comprise a mere 4 percent of the chief executive officer positions at Fortune 500 companies.
Economists at UC Santa Barbara are exploring some of the reasons behind this continuing disparity, and they’re using a 1-mile race as their data source. Their findings appear in the current issue of the journal Economic Inquiry. …read more
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