Board Diversity
It makes business sense for corporate boards to reflect their customers, clients, and employee base. Yet only 22.5% of board seats in the Fortune 500 are held by women, and only 4.6% are held by women of color. Explore our resources and programs for increasing board diversity and becoming a board director here.
Results
Missing Pieces: Women and Minorities on Fortune 500 Boards—2012 Alliance for Board Diversity Census (Report)
Census compiled by the Alliance for Board Diversity (ABD), a collaboration of five leading organizations.
High Potentials in the Pipeline: On Their Way to the Boardroom (Report)
This report highlights the differences between women's and men's career experiences and satisfaction.
2012 Catalyst Census: Fortune 500 Women Board Directors (Report)
This census provides critical statistics to gauge women's advancement into leadership and highlights the gender diversity gap.
Lloyds Banking Group – Championing Diversity to Build a Strong Talent Pipeline (Practices)
When Lloyds and HBOS merged to become Lloyds Banking Group in 2009, executives used it as an opportunity to review…
Nationwide – Touch Point Program (Practices)
Nationwide places a strategic focus on people, which includes developing talent. For employees at the 85-year-old insurance and finance organization,…
Setting the Record Straight
Catalyst’s Setting the Record Straight series used hard evidence derived primarily from Catalyst Fortune 500 and Financial Post 500 Census data to debunk myths about women in corporate leadership.
The Momentum Myth: The Impact of Turnover on Women’s Representation on Financial Post Public Company Boards (Report)
This report addresses the myth that because so many public companies are appointing women directors, women's overall representation is poised to reach parity rapidly.
The Momentum Myth: The Impact of Turnover on Women’s Representation on Fortune 500 Boards (Report)
This report addresses this myth: because many companies are appointing women directors, women's overall representation is poised to reach parity rapidly.
Narrowing the Financial Post 100 Gender Leadership Gap: Change is Closer Than You Think (Report)
This report addresses the myth that closing the gender leadership gap in corporate Canada is impossible.
The Supply Problem Myth: Financial Post 500 Boards (Report)
This report addresses the myth that there is a shortage of women qualified for board service.
Narrowing the Fortune 100 Gender Leadership Gap: Change is Closer Than You Think (Report)
This report addresses the myth that closing the gender leadership gap in corporate America is impossible.
The Supply Problem Myth: Fortune 500 Boards (Report)
This report addresses the myth that there is a shortage of women qualified for board service.
The “Think Director, Think CEO” Myth: Financial Post 500 Companies (Report)
This report addresses the myth that CEO experience is a requirement for corporate board service in Canada.
The “Think Director, Think CEO” Myth: Fortune 500 Companies (Report)
This report addresses the myth that CEO experience is a requirement for corporate board service.
2011 Catalyst Census: Financial Post 500 Women Board Directors (Report)
The 2011 Catalyst Census details women's representation on corporate boards at the largest companies in Canada.
ALLETE, Inc. – Recruitment Practices and Board Culture: Prioritizing Qualifications and Fostering Inclusion to Increase Gender Balance (Practices)
At a time when women's board representation in Fortune 500 companies is just over 16 percent, and in an industry…
Methodology: 2011 Catalyst Census: Fortune 500 (Appendix)
The 2011 Catalyst Census: Fortune 500 Women Executive Officers and Top Earners and 2011 Catalyst Census: Fortune 500 Women Board Directors examine women's representation in corporate governance at…
2011 Catalyst Census: Fortune 500 Women Board Directors (Report)
The 2011 Catalyst Census: Fortune 500 Women Board Directors examines women's representation in corporate governance in the United States.
Gender and Corporate Social Responsibility: It’s a Matter of Sustainability (Report)
When it comes to sustainability, stakeholders should look to a new benchmark to judge the long-term health of a company.
Missing Pieces: Women and Minorities on Fortune 500 Boards – 2010 Alliance for Board Diversity Census (Report)
The Census was compiled by the Alliance for Board Diversity (ABD), a collaboration of five leading organizations.