Boardrooms Still Lack Women
July 10, 2014 1:02 PM   Subscribe

Gender_Map by Data Morphosis and TWO-N demonstrates that women make up just 10.7% of all US company board members. They are best represented at Avon, where more than half the board is female. Eighteen S&P 500 companies have male directors exclusively. (Via Forbes, where the article is adorned with a pink [!] bar graph.)
posted by GrammarMoses (6 comments total) 5 users marked this as a favorite
 
My mind read that as "bedrooms" and started spinning to anticipate where the story would lead...
posted by Walleye at 1:38 PM on July 10, 2014 [1 favorite]


Pink bar graph. Naturally.

Sigh.
posted by aramaic at 1:41 PM on July 10, 2014 [3 favorites]


Better post title: M&M/Mars Needs Women. Ah well.
posted by GrammarMoses at 1:54 PM on July 10, 2014 [5 favorites]


My mind read that as "bedrooms" and started spinning to anticipate where the story would lead...

I did the same, and the autoprefetch in my brain started writing the snarky comment i'd post on some sort of update about this.
posted by emptythought at 2:37 PM on July 10, 2014


It's interesting that big corporations appear to be doing a better job on board diversity than small corporations. If I'm reading the infographic correctly, 23.3% of DJIA board members are female, while only 11.9% of S&P Small Cap 600 board members are. My DJIA employer is ~30%.
posted by monju_bosatsu at 2:39 PM on July 10, 2014 [3 favorites]


Just wait till someone documents how many Women Owned Small Businesses are primarily owned and operated by guys who put their wife's name on the paperwork.
posted by pwnguin at 2:45 PM on July 10, 2014 [1 favorite]


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