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. Mon, 19 Jul 2021 14:01:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.7.2 Q4 2019 Equilar Gender Diversity Index https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2020/03/30/q4-2019-equilar-gender-diversity-index/ https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2020/03/30/q4-2019-equilar-gender-diversity-index/#respond Mon, 30 Mar 2020 12:41:34 +0000 https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/?p=127789?d=20200330084134EDT Posted by Daniella Gama-Diaz, Equilar, Inc., on Monday, March 30, 2020
Editor's Note: Daniella Gama-Diaz is Associate Editor at Equilar, Inc. This post is based on an Equilar memorandum by Ms. Gama-Diaz, Zeynep Akca, Jacob Doty, Louisa Lan, and Paul Richardson.

For the ninth consecutive quarter, the Equilar Gender Diversity Index (GDI) has increased. With the percentage of women on the boards of Russell 3000 companies increasing from 20.9% in Q3 2019 to 21.5% in Q4 2019, the GDI is now 0.43, where 1.0 represents parity among men and women. The continuous upward trend of women on boards has pushed the GDI to the highest point it has ever been.

While the past few years have represented progress, 2019 saw the most significant growth for women on corporate boards. Q2 2019 was the first time the percentage of women on Russell 3000 boards exceeded 20%, while Q3 further pushed this statistic to 20.9% and Q4 rounded out the decade at 21.5%. With over 21% of Russell 3000 board seats belonging to women, 114 companies have boards with between 40% and 50% women. When Equilar began tracking the GDI in January 2017, only 15% of board seats in the Russell 3000 were held by women.

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]]> https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2020/03/30/q4-2019-equilar-gender-diversity-index/feed/ 0 Q2 2019 Gender Diversity Index https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2019/09/26/q2-2019-gender-diversity-index/ https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2019/09/26/q2-2019-gender-diversity-index/#respond Thu, 26 Sep 2019 13:21:05 +0000 https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/?p=122384?d=20190926092105EDT Posted by Amit Batish and Ryan Lau, Equilar Inc., on Thursday, September 26, 2019
Editor's Note: Amit Batish is Content Manager and Ryan Lau is an Associate Editor at Equilar Inc. This post is based on an Equilar memorandum by Mr. Batish, Mr. Lau, Kofi Boadu, Jacob Doty, Louisa Lan, and Paul Richardson.

The Equilar Gender Diversity Index (GDI) has now increased for a seventh consecutive quarter. The percentage of women on Russell 3000 boards increased from 19.3% to 20.2% in Q2 2019. This acceleration once again moved the needle, pushing the GDI to 0.40, where 1.0 represents parity among men and women on corporate boards across the Russell 3000.

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