Is your board diverse? Liz Watson weighs in.
If approximately one in seven of a company's board seats are held by women, is that good enough? How about one in 20 for visible minorities or less than one per cent for aboriginals? Apparently so, according to most board respondents surveyed in the Canadian Board Diversity Council's second annual report card on board diversity, which was released Wednesday.
The report's survey of 218 charity board members and 164 Top 500 board members found that 15 per cent of board seats were held by women, 5.3 per cent by visible minorities, 2.9 per cent by people with disabilities and just 0.8 per cent by aboriginals.