Of 2000 board seats across the 300 largest Australian-listed companies, 633 are occupied by women. Boards with no women decreased from 59 in 2016 to just 14 in 2021.
‘There will be no ASX 300 companies without a female director by 2026’
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Board Diversity Index, released on Wednesday 4 August 2021 by Watermark Search International and Governance Institute of Australia, surveyed 300 organisations and more than 2000 board seats on the following measures of diversity: gender, cultural background, skills, age, and tenure and independence.
Gender
The report found that the number of ASX 300 companies with one or no female directors has halved since 2016, with the number of women on boards having risen by 60 per cent in that time, going to 633 in 2021, up from 399 in 2016.
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