{"id":18941,"date":"2020-03-05T12:50:12","date_gmt":"2020-03-05T12:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ceo-na.com\/?p=18941"},"modified":"2020-03-05T19:16:09","modified_gmt":"2020-03-05T19:16:09","slug":"just-checking-the-box-wont-result-in-true-board-diversity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/business\/innovation-business\/just-checking-the-box-wont-result-in-true-board-diversity\/","title":{"rendered":"Just checking the box won\u2019t result in true board diversity"},"content":{"rendered":"

The demand for diversity in\u00a0America\u2019s corporate boardrooms has full-blown. There’s much to be done.<\/span><\/p>\n

By<\/b> Suzanne Folsom & Deborah Ben-Canaan*<\/span><\/p>\n

Companies love promoting diversity, but the facts tell another story.<\/span><\/p>\n

Major corporations have been publicly skewered by their own employees and shareholders, customers, legislators, and the media for the stubborn uniformity of their boards.<\/span><\/p>\n

The demand for diversity in the boardroom has grown exponentially louder in recent years; many companies have promised to do better, and a few have actually done so, either because it\u2019s the right thing to do, or to alleviate a PR nightmare\u2014or both.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>

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The bad news however, is that despite public outcry and hand-wringing, little has actually changed.<\/p>\n

In fact, boards remain frighteningly homogenous. In 2017, Deloitte found that just 14% of board seats in the Americas are held by women, up just slightly from 12% in 2015. And the proportion of female board chairs\u2014 which is less than 4%\u2014did not change during that time.<\/p>\n

Moreover, a 2016 study of the S&P 500 boards found that the number of new African-American, Latino, and Asian board members had actually decreased from the year before.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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