Women on Board, the Davies Review Annual Report 2014. It is encouraging to see improvements in board members and so many household named companies providing over 25% of their members to be women. There is still a long way to go, the items highlighted as risks are interesting also, ‘We encourage companies to periodically advertise Non-Executive board positions to encourage greater diversity in applications.’ this would also be a leap forward if there was significant improvement in the NED roles for women as in deed these positions are extremely male dominated.
March 2014 – FTSE 100 boards 79.3% men 20.7% women
Please read the full report here : Women-on-Boards-2014