women on boards

Graeme Samuel observed that a ‘nuclear bomb’ is necessary to blow apart the ‘impenetrable’ club of women keeping other talented females out of boardrooms.

AMP’s all-male board, one of four on the ASX 200 that started 2019 as female-free zone, didn’t help the push to reach the target.

A series of appointments announced by Grant Thornton mean women now represent 44% of the board as opposed to just 22% earlier this year.

New research finds that companies with women on boards experience fewer environmental lawsuits than their diversity-lacking counterparts.

Unofficial quotas for female speakers at conferences is changing the events industry. Imagine what real female board quotas could do for companies.

The time is now to get more women on boards, according to Nicola Wakefield Evans, who has just been appointed to chair the 30% Club.

Can the best CEOs for women be men? One ranking this week compiled by jobs site, Comparably suggested just that, but we’re not buying it.

Chris Corrigan and Gerry Harvey are two high profile businessmen willing to make on the record criticisms of the push to appoint more women to boards.

“Quotas are just a door that we need to push open,” the Global Women’s Summit President told the delegates in Sydney on Friday. “To move women into leadership roles we need to be aggressive or we’ll wait forever.”

Is it gumption or ignorance? One of Australia’s largest manufacturers ARB still can’t find a woman for its board.

Leadership lessons and career advice from Dr Kirstin Ferguson the woman who created #CelebratingWomen. From the Air Force, to law, to CEO to board director.