Ethnic and racial minorities accounted for 47% of all new directors, compared to 22% in the prior year, according to the report. Nearly all of the increase came from the appointment of Black directors, who made up 33% of new board seats from May of 2020 through May of 2021, up from 11% in the prior period.
Julie Daum, who leads the North American board practice at Spencer Stuart, said there was a "very conscious effort" by corporate America to recruit African-American directors after the murder of George Floyd last spring and the Black Lives Matter movement. Black Americans now account for 11% of board seats at S&P 500 companies, edging closer to their roughly 13% representation in the general U.S. population, the report found.
Women now make up 30% of all S&P 500 directors, a key threshold that advocacy organizations including the Thirty Percent Coalition have called for. The figure is up from 28% a year earlier and 16% a decade ago, the report found.Spencer Stuart found that adding women directors fell from the third most important priority for boards to 10th, which Daum called "discouraging."The percentage of new directors who are women fell to 43% over the last year from 47%, according to the report.
Hispanics and Latinos accounted for 5% of corporate directors versus their 18.5% share of the U.S. population, the report found.The report looked at S&P 500 boards over a one-year period ending in May 2021. Most of the new directors from racial and ethnic minorities were additions to boards, rather than replacements, Daum said.Boards that set the mandatory retirement age for directors at 75 or over accounted for 51% of those with such policies, up from 48% the prior year.
Black lives really matters! In africa data prices always rises up especially in the midth of Covid crisis thus makes me matter how can we raise voices to the world on what happen to this part of the world!?
Yep we had to hire a woman and a black dude recently in our engineering team … was mandatory to promote diversity and inclusion… we just picked randomly…
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