As Boards Regroup, More Women Join
December 1, 2002
By CLAUDIA H. DEUTSCH

LEGISLATORS, regulators and stock exchange executives all seem to agree: Give boardroom audit committees sharper teeth, and corporate chiefs will no longer be able to slip funny numbers to, and through, the auditors.

But here's an unexpected impact: More women are joining the committees. A few are even leading them.

The trend is too new to document, but anecdotal evidence is piling up.

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