They've added two, three, four women to their boards. Similarly, Catalyst finds a statistically significant correlation between the presence of women directors and companies that carried over from last year's Fortune 500 list to this year's list. Companies established on the list are more likely to have women on their boards than companies just joining the Fortune 500. Catalyst has traced the number of women on the boards of directors of top companies over a period of years and first published the Catalyst Census of Women Board Directors in 1993. The Census lists the Fortune 500, indexed by rank, industry, and state, with the names of women on each board.
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