America is increasingly diverse, as is its workforce, but corporate leaders still strongly resemble the cast of “Mad Men.”
In 2014, only 5 percent of Fortune 500 CEOs were women. In case you forgot, women account for roughly 50 percent of the human race.
|Whiteness and maleness
But ethnic and racial diversity is also severely lacking in the C-suite, even at companies that have greatly increased the diversity of their overall workforce. In 2014, only 4 percent of Fortune 500 chief executives were racial or ethnic minorities in a country that is now 38 percent nonwhite.
There are a variety of explanations for the stubborn whiteness and maleness of the C-suite.
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