While fulfilling increased regulatory requirements continues to preoccupy corporate boardrooms, the ongoing disparity between the relative proportion of female and male board members is also a rising concern—for organizations as well as legislators. In dealing with the issue, a number of countries around the world have introduced legislation, or are in various stages of talking about doing so, to require quotas—or minimum numbers of women—to serve on publicly listed companies’ boards of directors.
A new Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited (DTTL) report from the Deloitte Global Center for Corporate Governance, "Women in the boardroom: A global perspective," examines the legislative efforts in this area across 12* countries and compares the current percentage of women on boards around the world.
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