Women on Public-Company Boards: Factors That Affect their Odds of Board Membership Relative to Those of Men

Despite anecdotal support, empirical evidence for network effects on women's advancement to corporate board membership has yet to be fully documented. To address these gaps in extant knowledge, the primary questions that the proposed project seeks to answer how network variables affect the likelihood of board membership for women differently from men? We found, from examining the networks of 489 directors, constraints in the opportunity structure available to women in the upper echelons of organizations.