Women on Corporate Boards of Directors International Challenges and Opportunities

This volume, the first to focus exclusively on women serving on corporate boards of directors, provides the latest thinking and research findings on this increasingly important corporate governance issue. It includes censuses of women directors in a number of countries, identifies reasons for their limited numbers, indicates why appointing qualified women to boards offers competitive advantages, and suggests practical ways corporations can attract, recruit and appoint more women board members. Researchers interested in gender and corporate governance issues, companies interested in increasing their numbers of women board members, and women and men serving or hoping to serve on corporate boards will find this book of interest.Burke, Ronald J. is the author of 'Women on Corporate Boards of Directors International Challenges and Opportunities', published 2000 under ISBN 9780792361626 and ISBN 0792361628.