Comments on: Bank of Hawaii annual meeting prompts questions http://www.ilind.net/2012/05/27/bank-of-hawaii-annual-meeting-prompts-questions/ Ian Lind • Online daily from Kaaawa, Hawaii Fri, 24 May 2013 06:20:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: tiptoe thru tulips http://www.ilind.net/2012/05/27/bank-of-hawaii-annual-meeting-prompts-questions/comment-page-1/#comment-38466 tiptoe thru tulips Mon, 28 May 2012 23:51:30 +0000 http://ilind.net/?p=9678#comment-38466 The percentage of women on US boards has increased only marginally (by 0.5 percentage points) in 2009-2011, and now stands at 12.6%, well below the figures for Nordic countries, Canada, Australia, and France. While over 70% of US boards have at least one female director, only about 10% have three or more women, and a mere 2% of board chairs are women. Interestingly, however, women are slightly overrepresented on all three key committees compared to their numbers in the director population.

A number of initiatives are underway to try to increase women’s representation on US boards. For example, the 30% Coalition is a network of investors, corporate leaders, and other advocates seeking to raise the proportion of female directors to that
number by 2015. (For more, see the website at http://www.gmi3D.com.)

]]> By: Carol http://www.ilind.net/2012/05/27/bank-of-hawaii-annual-meeting-prompts-questions/comment-page-1/#comment-38446 Carol Mon, 28 May 2012 07:14:18 +0000 http://ilind.net/?p=9678#comment-38446 Why so few women on the BoD?

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