Why America’s boardrooms still cater to men
Bizwomen.com: A Business Journals analysis of some 3,000 publicly traded companies with at least $100 million in market capitalization found the absence of female directors particularly pronounced among two classes of companies: those with relatively limited resources compared with their larger brethren and, perhaps not surprisingly, those run by male CEOs and board chairs. Among those thousands of companies, male directors outnumbered their female peers by a six-to-one ratio at the end of 2017. The Business Journals also identified 710 boards that reported no women directors at all, and found another 1,034 companies with just a single woman director at year’s end — meaning more than half of the companies analyzed had one or fewer women directors on their boards last year.