While statistics show the number of women in top business leadership roles is improving, all sides agree more needs to be done to achieve gender equity in Connecticut and across the country.
According to the Russell 3000 — a market index that measures the performance of the top 3,000 U.S. publicly-traded companies — 46.9% of companies had at least three women on their board of directors in 2021, a 21.7% increase from two years prior. The percentage of companies with greater than 30% of women on their boards also jumped 16.8% during that same period.