Women Stepping Up in Singapore Boardrooms

ingapore’s top companies have led from the front in helping to remedy one of the blights on the local corporate scene – the under-representation of women on company boards. A new report has found that across the 30 listed companies comprising the blue chip Straits Times Index (STI), 10.2 per cent of board seats were held by women last year, up from 7.6 per cent in 2014.