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What’s changed in the past year for women in public company board leadership
By Dottie Schindlinger
Monday March 8, 2021
Women hold more board positions in the public sector than ever before, but COVID risks unravelling the work. (Image: Adobe/peshkova)
In 2020, Diligent Institute’s report,
A Few Good Women: Gender Inclusion in Public Company Board Leadership, set out to investigate the matter of diversity on Australia public company boards. We were particularly interested in learning more about women’s inclusion in board leadership roles.
The past few years have seen Australia make slow but steady progress towards closing the gap for women on company boards. Twenty-six percent of board seats in Australia were held by women in 2020, increasing three percentage points to 29% in 2021, which is two percentage points above the global average. That reflects well on us as a nation.
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