We provide an empirical overview of women’s under-representation in positions of senior management in Brazil, including the board of directors and “C” level positions. We do so by collecting data on 73,901 top managerial positions of 837 different publicly held companies throughout sixteen years from 1997 until 2012. We find that the proportion of women

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