Women in Power — Or Not So Much: Gender in the Nonprofit Sector

Local and small nonprofit venues are teeming with women in power, but when big money comes into play, boundaries go up quickly. The fact that women are underrepresented when it comes to having seats on nonprofit boards should come as no surprise to anybody, and control of money certainly figures in, as a recent article in the Washington Post documents yet again. Overall, women comprise 43 percent of the membership of nonprofit boards, but that drops to 33 percent when considering boards of nonprofits with incomes of $25 million or more.