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Davies Review calls for one third of all FTSE board seats to go to women by 2020

on Oct 29, 2015 | 0 comments

By John Glenday

The government-backed Davies Review looking at sexism in the workplace has set a target for one third of all board seats in Britain’s biggest companies to be held by women by 2020.

Published today the long awaited Women on Boards report marks a change in pace from an earlier 2011 directive, which mandated that a quarter of all FTSE board seats be handed to women by 2015.

Authored by Lord Mervyn Davies, former chairman and chief executive of Standard Chartered, the report coincides with warnings from executive search firm Audeliss that the percentage of female non-executive directors is actually in danger of Read full story ›

Source: The Drum