Citation:
Ruth Sealy, Susan Vinnicombe and Elena Doldor. The Female FTSE Board Report
2009, International Centre for Women Leaders at the Cranfield School of
Management
Abstract:
2009 marks our eleventh annual report with a small incremental increase in the
percentage of women on boards. Overall, there are 12.2% women directors on the
FTSE 100 boards. There is a discouraging decline in the number of companies with
female executive directors to 15 (from 16). Also disappointing is a decline in
the number of boards with multiple women directors to 37 (from 39). In addition
there is a decline in the overall number of companies with women on boards, and
once again one in four companies have exclusively male boards.
