Number of women on UK boards up 50%, but parity challenges remain
3 years, 10 months ago

Number of women on UK boards up 50%, but parity challenges remain

Al Jazeera  

The number of women on the boards of directors of the UK’s 350 top publicly traded firms has jumped by more than 50 percent since 2015, but women are still underrepresented in senior executive roles. Women now hold more than a third of the seats on the boards of the United Kingdom’s biggest companies, meeting a government target set five years ago. The number of women on the boards of directors of the UK’s 350 top publicly traded firms has jumped by more than 50 percent since 2015, meaning that 34.3 percent of all board seats are now held by women, an independent panel said in a report published Wednesday. Women hold 43.8 percent of the board seats at companies in France’s 40 biggest publicly traded companies, the UK panel said.

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Why women are in Britain’s boardrooms – but not in the top jobs
1 week, 2 days ago

Why women are in Britain’s boardrooms – but not in the top jobs

The Independent  

There is no doubt that the cause of women at the top of British business has advanced considerably in recent years. In its 2024 UK Board Index, headhunter Spencer Stuart reports: “There has been significant progress in female representation in senior board roles.” With just a year left until the deadline to meet the FTSE Women Leaders Review target for …

Women on corporate boards: A way forward
3 months, 1 week ago

Women on corporate boards: A way forward

Hindustan Times  

The provision of having one woman independent director on a corporate board has worked well over the last ten years. Most of the men directors had served on boards without any women directors before 2014 and observed the impact of having WIDs. Most women board members, we interviewed, felt that journey of WIDs on boards has had its challenges. Accepting …

Fewer women in corporate leadership roles, judiciary, says report
4 months, 1 week ago

Fewer women in corporate leadership roles, judiciary, says report

The Hindu  

The representation of women in corporate decision-making roles remains inadequate with only 34,879 women holding senior management positions in 2023 as compared to 1,86,946 men. In other managerial positions in corporate firms, there were 7,38,949 women as compared to 18,60,348 men, the data sourced from the Ministry of Corporate Affairs for the report shows. Though the number of women in …

Corporates Talk Up Diversity, But Boards Stay Stubbornly Male: How Biz Can Bring In More Women
4 months, 3 weeks ago

Corporates Talk Up Diversity, But Boards Stay Stubbornly Male: How Biz Can Bring In More Women

ABP News  

By Manjari Das The underrepresentation of women on corporate boards remains a persistent issue, with progress proving as difficult as moving the needle on a stubborn gauge. Despite increased awareness and initiatives promoting diversity, women don’t wield substantial influence in decision-making processes. Businesses must establish effective mentorship and sponsorship programmes to help women advance to senior leadership positions, increasing the …

Inclusivity in corporate board rooms: comparing Europe and India
5 months ago

Inclusivity in corporate board rooms: comparing Europe and India

The Hindu  

Sinha, S.N., Rajpal, H. and Girisha, G., ‘Gender Diversity on the Board of Indian Companies: A Policy Gap’, Economic & Political Weekly, Vol 59, Issue No. Although there is evidence of a positive correlation between gender diversity on boards and enhanced corporate outcomes, the global gender gap persists, often due to entrenched “old boy networks” within companies. In India, the …

Women's Quota in listed companies having an effect: CPB
9 months, 1 week ago

Women's Quota in listed companies having an effect: CPB

NL Times  

The women’s quota for supervisory boards of listed companies in the Netherlands is having an effect. It states that at least one-third of the members of listed companies’ supervisory boards must be women, and companies must make appointments aimed at achieving this quota. Before the law was announced, less than 35 percent of listed companies had 33 percent women on …

Women battle on for equality in top business jobs
9 months, 2 weeks ago

Women battle on for equality in top business jobs

New Indian Express  

PARIS: More women are taking top management jobs but inequality persists, with men still dominating business leadership roles, research showed ahead of International Women's Day on March 8. A survey published last week by Equileap, which researches data on diversity, found only seven percent of CEOs and 17 percent of finance directors in big companies in developed countries were women. …

More women in high positions at Dutch companies; Boards of Directors lagging behind
10 months, 3 weeks ago

More women in high positions at Dutch companies; Boards of Directors lagging behind

NL Times  

The share of women in top positions of large Dutch companies increased between 2020 and 2022, but the number of women on Boards of Directors is not growing fast enough, according to the Social and Economic Council. In 2022, Dutch companies’ Boards of Directors - the executives handling the day-to-day management of a business - consisted of 14.7 percent women, …

India Inc boardrooms have a mixed report card on diversity
1 year, 1 month ago

India Inc boardrooms have a mixed report card on diversity

Live Mint  

What does a typical Indian boardroom look like? Besides, the board composition remains heavily skewed towards non-executive directors, suggests data for the last five years. Additionally, in terms of gender diversity across firms of varied ownerships, multinationals lead ahead with the highest share of women directors. While the board size of Nifty 500 companies has relatively remained stable over the …

Large firms lacking board level diversity risk ‘toxic’ cultures, group warns
1 year, 6 months ago

Large firms lacking board level diversity risk ‘toxic’ cultures, group warns

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The UK’s biggest listed companies lack employee representation and …

More women in board positions in the financial sector
1 year, 11 months ago

More women in board positions in the financial sector

NL Times  

Companies in the financial sector increased the proportion of women on their boards further in 2022, though women are still under-represented in top functions like CEO and CFO. Last year, companies in the financial sector appointed an equal number of women and men to their boards, increasing the percentage of women in boardrooms from 37 percent in June 2022 to …

New EU quota for women in top positions more ambitions than Dutch one
2 years, 1 month ago

New EU quota for women in top positions more ambitions than Dutch one

NL Times  

The European Parliament approved a new quota for women in top positions on Tuesday that is somewhat more ambitious than the pre-existing quota in the Netherlands. From 2026, 40 percent of large European companies’ supervisory boards must consist of women. The Dutch quota, which took effect at the start of this year, states that one-third of large companies’ supervisory boards …

Report: Women gained fewer US company board seats in 2022
2 years, 2 months ago

Report: Women gained fewer US company board seats in 2022

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — U.S. companies have added women to their boards of director at a slower pace this year compared with last year as the pandemic and a difficult economy shift priorities, according to a new report released Thursday. Women have continued to make gains, now holding a record 28% of board seats on the Russell 3000 index of publicly …

More women than men appointed to supervisory boards for the first time
2 years, 3 months ago

More women than men appointed to supervisory boards for the first time

NL Times  

Dutch listed companies have for the first time appointed more women than men as supervisory directors. At the 89 listed Dutch companies, the percentage of female supervisory directors rose this year from 33 percent to 38 percent. Since Jan. 1, 2022, the legal quota of at least one third woman and at least one third men on the supervisory board …

Top positions in AEX companies are still occupied by men
2 years, 8 months ago

Top positions in AEX companies are still occupied by men

NL Times  

A new law has been in force since the beginning of 2022, stipulating there must be a “balanced composition” of men and women on supervisory boards. The VEB analyzed meeting agendas of AEX companies to assess progress in the planned changes of Executive and Supervisory Boards after the annual investor meeting and made three major observations. First, they found the …

Global report shows increase in China's corporate female leaders
2 years, 9 months ago

Global report shows increase in China's corporate female leaders

China Daily  

Although women representation at the board level has improved, the rate of change has varied each year. The proportion of total director seats held by women in China-listed companies has increased more than 5 percentage points from 2016 to 2021, data from global index provider MSCI showed ahead of International Women's Day on Tuesday, but women in the country still …

Britain makes barely any progress increasing the number of female CEOs
3 years, 8 months ago

Britain makes barely any progress increasing the number of female CEOs

The Telegraph  

The number of women leading UK companies has barely increased over the past year, with just 6.3pc of firms run by a female chief executive. However, the UK ranks fifth among the G20 nations in terms of the proportion of women leading companies, according to data from S&P Capital IQ that canvasses almost 300,000 businesses across the globe. Felicia Willow, …

If we want true gender equality in the boardroom, we must go beyond box-ticking
3 years, 9 months ago

If we want true gender equality in the boardroom, we must go beyond box-ticking

The Independent  

There are now no all-male boards in the FTSE 350. It’s worrying that companies secure their three females – or in the case of the 16, they appoint one – from outside, and then they appear to drop the issue and to move on. It’s worrying that companies secure their three females – or in the case of the 16, …

The Future is Female: Norway's Wealth Fund Wants More Women on Boards
3 years, 10 months ago

The Future is Female: Norway's Wealth Fund Wants More Women on Boards

News 18  

Norway’s $1.3 trillion sovereign wealth fund, the world’s largest, wants the companies it invests in globally to boost the number of women on their boards and to consider setting targets if fewer than 30% of their directors are female, top fund officials told Reuters. “What we want to see is better representation of women on the boards,” added Carine Smith …

In Germany's Landmark Law, Large Companies Must Include Women on Their Executive Boards
3 years, 11 months ago

In Germany's Landmark Law, Large Companies Must Include Women on Their Executive Boards

News 18  

German listed companies must include women on their executive boards as part of a landmark bill agreed by the country’s coalition government Wednesday after voluntary efforts failed to close a gender gap. Just 12.8 percent of management board members at Germany’s 30 largest listed companies — those in Frankfurt’s blue-chip DAX index — are women, according to the AllBright Foundation, …

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