Boards Tag

In what may come as a surprise to nobody, there still aren’t enough women on corporate boards. Women now hold 28 percent of corporate board seats, and that number drops to six percent for girls of color, in accordance with the most recent insights from advocacy organization 50/50 Women on Boards and its 2022 progress report. If matters could possibly be made worse, the report found the pace of bringing gender diversity to corporate boards is slowing. In taking a look at the progress between June 2021 and June 2022, tracking the proportion of girls on Russell 3000 Index company boards (the biggest public firms within the U.S.), the uptick was just 2 percentage points, in comparison with 3 percentage points for the...