Don Cayo: Time for corporate boards to take diversity seriously – Vancouver Sun
Businesses miss out when their leaders all look and think the same
VANCOUVER — If you, like me, think most big Canadian companies have too few women on their boards of directors, then what should we make of the under-representation of aboriginals and other visible minorities?
The numbers for these two groups are much worse. To compare:
Women comprise 50.4 per cent of the Canadian population, or 51 per cent in Metro Vancouver. They hold just eight per cent of the executive positions in Canada’s 500 largest companies, but their representation on boards of directors has inched up and now is 17.1 per cent.
