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The Black Ceiling: Why African-American Women Aren’t Making It to the Top in Corporate America

March 19, 2018

It was supposed to be different by now.

When Ursula Burns quietly shut off the light to her office as Xerox CEO at the end of 2016, her departure also cast a light on a sad statistic: There are currently zero African-American women running Fortune 500 companies. Burns’ appointment to the top job in 2009 had been hailed as a milestone. Suddenly it looked more like an anomaly.

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