In a Q&A, Susan Stautberg of Women Corporate Directors discusses a new study about how men and women approach their roles as directors—and why the percentage of female directors remains low
France's recent dictum that boards of directors of native companies must have at least 20 percent of their membership made up of female directors has reignited the debate about the lack of women in U.S. boardrooms. In late 2010 the professional association Women Corporate Directors (WCD), along with the consulting firm Heidrick & Struggles and Boris Groysberg of Harvard Business School, released a telling survey on this very topic. The study of some 300 female and 100 male board members in both public and private companies revealed sharp differences—not only in their perspectives, but also in how they were placed on boards in the first place. To learn more, Bloomberg Businessweek columnist Beverly Behan spoke with WCD co-founder and co-chair Susan Stautberg. Edited excerpts of their conversation follow.
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