Women hold a small share of top executive positions in U.S. corporations—roughly 5 percent to 12 percent, depending on which group of companies you’re looking at and how broadly you define “top executives,” according to this feature from Pew Research Center. While women are still underrepresented in these positions, there has been a small increase in the share of women executives over the past decade.

Between 2007 and 2017, the number of companies in the benchmark S&P 500 stock index headed by women chief executives nearly doubled, according to Pew Research Center’s analysis of those companies’ federal securities filings. But female CEOs still are far outnumbered by their male counterparts: In 2017, 27 companies in the S&P 500 (or 5.4 percent) had women CEOs, up from 14 (2.8 percent) in 2007.

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