'Network contagion' is key to getting healthier numbers of women on company boards
- Written by Michael Gilding, Pro Vice Chancellor, Faculty of Business and Law, Swinburne University of Technology
When women make up 30% of boards that's when it starts having an impact. Marvis Wong, CC BY-SA
Female representation of 30% on a company board is the tipping point at which it stops being tokenistic and begins to make a difference on things like innovation.
Norway, France and Sweden have already achieved this target for companies overall. In...
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