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of board seats on G20 listed companies held by women

Gender equality on boards

Tracking the gender balance of issuer’s boards, along with other related data, provides a useful benchmark for exchanges and other key stakeholders to assess progress in promoting gender equality among listed companies. More information about the SSE campaign for Gender Equality can be found here.

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An analysis of the gender balance of the top 100 issuers* by market capitalization from each of the 22 exchanges in the G20 and from the top 5 markets by market capitalization in seven different country groupings** (35 markets in total)

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MarketStock Exchange% of Women on BoardMandatory Minimum Rule?If yes, % WomenIf yes, N Women% of Women Chair% of Women CEOCountry GroupG20 Countries
          

Source: Data provided by Bloomberg. Additional company data compiled by SSE based on the latest available reports (2020 annual reports). Listing rule data compiled by SSE based on the latest available information (Q1 2022).

*If the exchange has less than 100 issuers, all the issuers were included in the analysis (the case of Argentina).

**Country groupings are based on UNSD definitions of region, sub-region and intermediate region except for the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, which were bundled into the “USCANZ” group.

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