Tesco chairman John Allan said this week that white men were becoming an “endangered species” in the boardroom. White men, he said, are becoming an “endangered species” in top business jobs, forced to compete with women and minorities for key positions. You are an endangered species and you are going to have to work twice as hard.”The statistics, though, tell a different story. In the United States, white men held 64 percent of board seats in 2016, according to a Deloitte study of Fortune 500 companies. Vicky Pryce, an economist and the author of “Why Women Need Quotas,” acknowledged that white men do face more competition than before.

Source: Washington Post March 11, 2017 17:37 UTC