The C-suite is becoming more Republican and more partisan
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Conservatives are going after corporations for peddling what they label as ”woke culture”. But in the C-suite, it’s Democrats who are losing ground.
The number of Republican executives has been increasing over the past decade, according to a new paper in the National Bureau of Economic Research. Of the roughly 4,000 executives the researchers studied, 69% were Republican and 31% were Democrat. Meanwhile, executive suites are also becoming less politically diverse, as polarization drives like-minded individuals cluster.
That polarization, the researchers found, is not only problematic politically, but is also bad for business.
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