Australia’s top 20 ranked companies made history this quarter (Q2 2023) achieving an aggregate 40 per cent women on their boards.
This success reflects the long-term efforts of chairs, boards, regulators, investors, executive search firms and campaigns like the Â鶹ֱ²¥ Australia that have ensured continued stakeholder scrutiny of appointments to listed boards.
Of course, the aggregate figures do not tell the whole story. Across the 759 directorships currently held by women in the ASX 300, an overwhelming number are non-executive directors (685) while just 37 are executive or managing directors including CEOs, and only 37 are chairs.
