On the progress of corporate women: Less a glass ceiling than a bottleneck

Women on Corporate Boards of Directors: International Research and Practice

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 184-197

  Dalton, Dan R ^a   Dalton, Catherine M ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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