GENDER PARODY: How to Get Even More White Men on Your Corporate Board

Data suggest that it will take until the end of 2055 to have board parity in the United States at the current rate.

In European countries like Norway, Belgium, Germany and France women hold 30 – 40% of corporate board seats. The legislative body of the European Union (the commission) has advocated for 40% of non-executive board members to be women. Among the FTSE 100 (Financial Times Stock Exchange) in the UK, women board directors have increased from 17.3% in 2013 to 27.7% in 2018 with aims of increasing that percentage to 33% by 2020.

In the United States, only 20% of board seats among the Fortune 500 are occupied by women. Although the government does not (wo)mandate the gender distribution of board members in the United States, groups like State Street Global Advisers and Blackrock are working to increase the number of women on boards. There