Women in the Board Room

A number of years ago I worked for a very large International IT company called Infosys. It was an Indian owned organization with approximately 167K employees globally. Obviously a very large corporation. Since I was a US citizen working mostly in the US at the time, our firm joined an organization called Catalyst (http://www.catalyst.org/). Catalyst is a non-profit that is dedicated to getting more women in the Board Room and into positions of senior leadership within large corporations. Their research has shown that for companies with female board members they out perform companies with male-only boards by 35% year-on-year. Here's another great article from the New York Times about women serving on boards and the relationship with increased executive pay. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/29/business/where-more-women-are-on-boards-executive-pay-is-higher.html?ref=business.