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Number of women on boards climbs slowly, ACSI finds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
The number of women directors in the ASX100 continued to climb slowly in 2010, accounting for 26% of new non-executive directors and 12.2% of all directors, up from 11.1% in 2009, according to research by the Australian Council of Superannuation Investors ...

Analysing the link between women directors and corporate returns

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
... robust policies and governance overall in everything that they do, and one aspect of that is seeking to have is women on boards? It would be impossible to prove causation, but there must be something about those sets of companies and the outperformance ...

ASX500 companies increase number of women on boards

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
... of ASX500 board positions, up from 7.1% in 2010. The three industry sectors with the highest representation of women on boards were financials, with 14.1% - up from 10.6% in 2010; healthcare, with 13% female representation, up from 10.1% last year; and ...

Interview: Anthea McIntyre, Australian Institute of Company Directors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 AUG 2011  |  NEWS
... countless other studies in Australia and around the world that have consistently found a positive correlation between women on boards and in management and improved corporate and financial performance. Q: Is gender diversity the most studied metric ...

Board capacity a key governance concern

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUL 2011  |  NEWS
... widening, there's a very slow evolution to that. That, also, is best manifested in the continued small proportion of women on boards. I think we have to be mindful of that, and encouraging companies to go beyond the pool to the wider pool of available ...

Investor Profile: Victorian Funds Management Corporation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUL 2011  |  NEWS
... very well be invested in all of the companies that the director sits. Q: Have you been engaging on the issue of women on boards? RM: Most definitely. In the last month or two, we wrote to the ASX200, just letting them know that we support theASXcorporate ...

Diane Grady appointed to Macquarie board

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 APR 2011  |  NEWS
... - of ASX200 companies reported at least one woman director according to GovernanceMetrics International's 2011 Women on Boards Report, up from 43.5 percent in 2010. However, only 2 percent of ASX200 companies had at least three women directors on their ...

"Steady but modest" increase in number of women directors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAR 2011  |  NEWS
... global increases, according to a report by GovernanceMetrics International (GMI) this week. "Overall, the number of women on boards has increased in the last year, but only modestly," the 2011 Women on Boards Report said. "This has lead [sic] to greater ...
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