According to the recent data gathered by Statistics Canada, there is a slight increase in the women’s percentage on boards of directors in 2017.
The 2017’s dataset includes 31,266 directors from 10,108 corporations. 18.1 percent of the director seats were occupied by women compared to the 17.8 percent out of 30,486 directors in last 2016 data.
The percentages in which the boards comprised of entirely male individuals are 61.7 percent in 2016 and 61.2 percent in 2017. Boards with 1 female director in 2017 is 27.7 percent in 2017’s proportion compared to the 2016’s 26.6 percent. Boards with more than 1 female are…
