Women head up a tiny percentage—less than 5 percent, to be exact—of Fortune 500 companies, but when it comes to charitable foundations, they’re doing better. Fifty-four percent of the country’s charitable foundations are led by women. (Although at the biggest and presumably best-paying foundations, those with assets of more than $1 billion, only 28 percent of the CEOs are female.)

But here in Sarasota-Manatee, women rule. ... Read more