Women on Boards: Global Trends in Gender Diversity
Research Paper
November 30, 2015
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Many institutional investors are increasingly focused on the gender composition of company boards. Our latest research shows that companies in the MSCI World Index with strong female leadership generated a Return on Equity of 10.1% per year versus 7.4% for those without, as of September 9, 2015, though we could not establish causality. We found that companies lacking board diversity suffered more governance-related controversies than average. Global asset owners are promoting a 30% global female director goal; we estimate that this goal is unlikely to be attained until 2027. We explored two ways to reach the 30% goal as early as 2020.
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