The Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu The leading online blog in the fields of corporate governance and financial regulation. Fri, 17 Jul 2026 11:32:25 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.8 https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/cropped-photography-4-e1706898544564-1-32x32.png Breaking the Glass Ceiling: Women in the Boardroom – The Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu 32 32 Breaking the Glass Ceiling: Women in the Boardroom https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2013/10/04/breaking-the-glass-ceiling-women-in-the-boardroom/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=breaking-the-glass-ceiling-women-in-the-boardroom https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2013/10/04/breaking-the-glass-ceiling-women-in-the-boardroom/#comments Fri, 04 Oct 2013 13:10:13 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/corpgov/?p=53325?d=20150106125147EST Posted by Noam Noked, co-editor, HLS Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation, on Friday, October 4, 2013
Editor's Note:

The following post comes to us from Tara K. Giunta, partner in the Litigation practice at Paul Hastings LLP, and is based on a Paul Hastings report edited by Ms. Giunta and Lianne Labossiere; the full report, including a summary of national corporate governance codes and jurisdiction-specific reviews, is available here.

Paul Hastings is pleased to present the third edition of “Breaking the Glass Ceiling: Women in the Boardroom,” a comprehensive, global survey of the way different countries address the issue of gender parity on corporate boards. This edition is a supplement to our full 2012 report, and provides updates to jurisdictions with notable developments over the past 12 months, as well as five new jurisdictions: Austria, Denmark, Finland, India, and Sweden.

Given the dynamism and evolution of this issue, we have developed an interactive website dedicated to providing the most current information and developments on the issue of diversity on corporate boards. Included are details about the legislative, regulatory, and private sector developments and trends impacting the representation of women on boards in countries around the world. In addition, there are interviews with corporate executives and directors as well as individuals who are making strides in addressing this issue—whether at their own companies, within their industries, or as a thought leader. We are honored to share the insights of three women who have been, and are today, pioneers in their own right and have lent their voices and efforts to address this issue:

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