Women Still a Minority on Corporate Boards

According to Bill Roth at the TriplePundit site, “While women account for over 50 percent of college graduates and they dominate economic power in our economy with $8 trillion of annual buying power, they still account for less than 15 percent of S&P 500 boards of directors. Three percent of Fortune 1000 companies have no women on their board of directors. For the next tier of 1,000 midsize companies the level of ZERO women representation on the boards jumps to 30 percent.”

In the following interview Kellie McElhaney, Whitehead Faculty Fellow in Corporate Sustainability for the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley, confirms these statistics and discusses some of the specific barriers to placing women on the board of directors.