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Beyond The Numbers: Substantive Gender Diversity In Boardrooms, Yaron G. Nili
Beyond The Numbers: Substantive Gender Diversity In Boardrooms, Yaron G. Nili
Indiana Law Journal
The push for gender diversity on public companies’ boards has been gaining traction. Advocacy groups, institutional investors, regulators, and companies themselves have all recognized the need for more diverse boards. However, gender parity is still absent from most public companies’ boards, and a significant number of companies still have no women on their boards.
Current public and academic discourse has focused on the number of women serving on the board and their percentage compared to men as the litmus test for gender diversity. However, academic studies and the public push for more diversity have mostly failed to account for another …