Women Directors and Participation on Key Committees

Women corporate directors globally are showing greater proportional gains on occupying key board committees than on boards overall, according to a new analysis by leading governance and ESG data and analytics provider Institutional Shareholder Services. Between Jan. 1, 2014, and Jan. 1, 2016, the proportion of women directorships at companies across major markets and indices in Europe, the U.S., Australia, and Canada grew by 5.5 percentage points compared with 6.9 points for those on audit committees.