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Women on Corporate Boards —The Way Forward

BY RICHARD BRANSON via Business Day Live
23 SEPTEMBER 2012

 

 

I RECENTLY watched 12 Angry Men — that classic 1957 film about a jury struggling to decide the fate of an 18-year-old man who has been charged with murder. The movie gives you a sense of how the legal system worked in the US back then, when juries were less diverse. By today’s standards, we would find it unsettling if a jury were comprised of 12 middle-aged white men. So why have so many business leaders been slow to take notice when women are absent from the corporate boards of their companies? Read full article>>