Women quotas on the board: A governance or gender issue? Board gender diversity

On the demand-side, there is a “glass ceiling” blocking women’s access to the highest corporate level and limiting the pool from which boards are chosen.

In most societies, women are successful at university and in their early careers but attrition rates increase as they progress through an organisation. Despite the ascendance of women in educational attainment, once employed, women still face obstacles that are either directly related to them, as women, or indirectly imposed by society. The business case for board gender diversity is still weak if based on some empirical evidence to date.