References&research

SustainableInvestmentsInstitute waldenTSInvestors have been interested in boosting the number of women and minority directors at companies for many years and won a new requirement for disclosure on the subject in 2009, but despite efforts since to make that requirement more specific, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has not acted further.

This has not deterred an expanding array of support for more board diversity, however. In the last year,

  1. Delivering through diversity
  2. MSCI: The Tipping Point: Woman on Boards and Financial Performance
  3. Case Study: Voya - Achieving a Gender Diverse Board
  4. Mercer: When Women Thrive, Businesses Thrive
  5. Paul Hastings: Breaking The Glass Ceiling: Women In The Boardroom
  6. Business Roundtable :Principles of Corporate Governance
  7. S.E.C.: Keynote Address: International Corporate Governance Network
  8. Peterson Institute: Is Gender Diversity Profitable? Evidence from a Global Survey
  9. GAO -Strategies to Address Representation of Women Include Federal Disclosure Requirements
  10. Woman on Boards and Firm Financial Performances