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 # A Rare Corner of Finance Where Women Dominate

 


 

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[A Rare Corner of Finance Where Women Dominate](https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/16/business/dealbook/women-corporate-governance-shareholders.html?_r=0)

[Originally published on The New York Times.](https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/16/business/dealbook/women-corporate-governance-shareholders.html?_r=0)

Seven of the 10 corporate governance heads at the largest institutional investors are women, according to data compiled by The New York Times. Those institutional investors manage $14 trillion in assets. And the women overseeing their corporate governance groups decide how those investors will vote on a range of companies' environmental, social, and governance issues raised among shareholders.

Their behind-the-scenes approach contrasts with noisy activist investors, as they work with the management at America’s largest companies to advocate for shareholder rights.

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