In the last five years, we’ve seen more women rise to the top levels of companies. An increasing number of companies are seeing the value of having more women in leadership, and they’re proving that they can make progress on gender diversity. This is an important step in the right direction.
The study finds that firms with female CFOs are more profitable and generated excess profits2 of $1.8T over the study horizon.
The man in charge of New York City’s $200 billion public pension fund wants more than 50 companies to take a page from the National Football League and pledge that they will consider female and minority candidates for their highest-level jobs.
Institutional investors’ recent signals to boards indicate a stronger-than-ever focuson the issue of boardroom diversity. 
The largest asset manager in the world, Black-Rock Inc., has indicated that it will likely vote against boards that fail to make progress on diversity, if the board doesn’t have
The Thirty Percent Coalition’s national awareness campaign, launched in April, to promote women of color onto corporate boards is having a positive response ahead of a series of events in the fall, the organization reveals to IR Magazine.
...we find that banks with more gender diversity on their board perform better once the composition of these boards reaches a critical level of gender diversity, corresponding to a board female share of around 13-17 percent.
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