Women Far Less Likely To Commit Corporate Fraud

Only nine percent of those who commit major corporate fraud are women, according to a new study published in the American Sociological Review, and it’s only partly because women are less likely to be in the top management positions with the best opportunities or because women are overlooked in group-centric corporate crime schemes dominated by an old boys’ network mentality. Even when women team up with men to commit fraud, they reap a fraction of the profit of their male co-conspirators.