The Paul Hastings law firm recently released the third edition of, Breaking the Glass Ceiling: Women in the Boardroom, a study that focuses on the role that stock exchanges and their listing policies can play in achieving gender parity in boardrooms around the globe. Exchanges can help in the march towards a more diverse boardroom by including diversity figures in their listing requirements and/or punishing companies who don’t comply. Like any diversity initiative, the important question is, does it work?
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It would be hard to argue that there has ever been a better time to be a professional woman, but despite making up close to 50% of America’s workforce, women are still very under-represented in executive roles (just 5.2% of Forbes 500 CEOs are women). Smart companies that understand the value of diversity and well-read hiring managers know that female-led companies are often more productive and financially stable. Yet women continue to be a scarcity in boardrooms and corner offices around the country. Visionaries like Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg, and scholars like Harvard’s Dr. Hermina Ibarra posit that the lack of female leadership has less to do with the paths available to the modern woman, and results more from the context in which these women are expected to learn to lead.