Executive Summary: 2014 Survey of Women on Boards

Nov 12, 2014

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Board diversity is one of the most prominent corporate governance issues today. Many institutional investors believe that governance can be enhanced when boards include directors with a diverse range of backgrounds, perspectives, skills and experience, as well as gender diversity. In this year’s annual report concerning women on boards, MSCI found that there continues to be a slow increase in the overall percentage of women on boards globally. Among MSCI World companies, women currently hold 17.3% of all directorships. Further, we found that boards with gender diversity above and beyond regulatory mandates or market norms had fewer instances of governance-related scandals such as bribery, corruption and fraud.

AUTHORS: LEE Linda-Eling, RALLIS Damion, MOSCARDI Matt