Gender diversity in UK boardrooms has come into sharp focus in recent years yet much of the evidence available only presents data on the overall proportion of women on boards. This can be useful, but there are other important factors to consider when examining this issue. Steve Glenn, E-reward’s Head of Executive Remuneration Research takes a closer look at the area and, drawing on a raft of new and timely data from our own Summit Executive Remuneration Database, provides some fascinating detail on the gender make-up of British boardrooms.
In addition to proportions of women employed on UK boards, for instance, important questions that need to be asked include:
E-reward’s Summit Executive Remuneration Database incorporates a huge tranche of data that makes it possible to answer such questions – so we have, for the first time, a much broader understanding of the current state of board-level gender diversity across corporate UK.
Part 1 present some preliminary findings from our research examining executive directors. In coming weeks and months we will supplement this information with more in-depth analysis as well as broadening our scope to examine non-executive roles. The current findings are for guidance only and are based on average data which can be influenced by particularly large or small outliers, a point which needs to be borne in mind when evaluating the results.