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Board Diversity Slipping: is it time to name and shame?
Tue 24 May 2011
, Melissa Anderson, www.theglasshammer.com
Tags: glashammer, board diversity
Released last week, the 2010 Alliance for Board Diversity Census revealed some discouraging news. Despite the best efforts of outspoken organizations, companies continue to keep women and minorities out of the American corporate boardroom and today the US has less diverse boards than six years ago.
While ABD does highlight those companies that have achieved relatively high levels of diversity (although only a handful of Fortune 500 company managed a diversity level of 50% or more), it also published a list of 37 “stale, male, and pale” companies that are failing the diversity imperative abysmally – with zero female or ethnically diverse board directors. Is it indeed time to name and shame? That’s the question Melissa J. Anderson writes about in The Glass Hammer.
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