Leadership

Women are needed in SET leadership

• In 2008, women held only nine per cent of board directorships in SET FTSE 100 companies, and exclusively male boards still existed in 35.0 per cent of SET companies.

• In 2008, only 27.5 per cent of SET FTSE 100 companies had more than one female director on their boards.
Data source: FTSE Report 2008 (Sealy, Vinnicombe, and Singh, 2008).

• In 2007-2008, only 9.3 per cent of all full-time STEM professors were female.
Secondary analysis by the UKRC, Data source:
HESA (2009) Resources of Higher Education Institutions 2007/08. Cheltenham, HESA.