Gender Diversity on Boards Grows Organically If Slowly in US

While countries like Germany legislate against all-male company boards, the US chips away at the status quo without government quotas or targets.

“It’s easy to say, put a woman on the board,” said Charlotte Laurent-Ottomane, executive director of Thirty Percent Coalition and former executive vice president at Alcatel-Lucent. “We want a qualified woman.”

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Chapman, Cate. ‘Gender diversity on boards grows organically if slowly in US’. ©2015 Advisen Ltd. 2 September 2015.