To hell with the business case for boardroom diversity, November 12, 2008, FT
I worry when people talk about there being a business case – as well as a moral case – for making the workplace fairer.
Reformers who claim that appointing a female director or CEO increases a company’s return on capital by 10 per cent are playing with fire. Not all statistics will be so helpful.
Take a new study called Women in the Boardroom and Their Impact on Governance and Performance, by academics at the University of Queensland and London School of Economics (and flagged by the Harvard Law School Corporate Governance Blog).
Women Gain in Education but Not Power, Study Finds, November 12, 2008, NYT
GENEVA (Reuters) — Women still lag far behind men in top political and decision-making roles, though their access to education and health care is nearly equal, the World Economic Forum said Wednesday.
In its 2008 Global Gender Gap report, the forum, a Swiss research organization, ranked Norway, Finland and Sweden as the countries that have the most equality of the sexes, and Saudi Arabia, Chad and Yemen as having the least.
50 women to watch 2008, WSJ interactive graphic, November 10, 2008
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