# kaal:claim:3071378-002

**Claim.** In the Fortune 1000 sample, minorities hold about 15 percent of employee positions but only 6 percent of management positions and 3 percent of executive level management positions, so representation falls as seniority rises.

**Type.** empirical  **Support.** evidenced

**Holds when.**

- Fortune 1000 sample dataset cited in the text

**Source quote.**

> In the sample dataset of Fortune 1000 companies, 37% of employees are women and about 15% are minorities.16 Management positions are held only at 17% by women and 6% by minorities.17 Executive level management positions are only at 6% women and 3% minorities.18

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *Blockchain Technology and Race in Corporate America* (2017), I. Introduction, page 4

**Cite as.** Wulf A. Kaal, Blockchain Technology and Race in Corporate America (2017). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3071378

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**Topics.** empirical-evidence

**Keywords.** minority-underrepresentation, executive-management, empirical-data, glass-ceiling, fortune-1000

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