Despite the progress on gender diversity in terms of board seats, India still needs to catch up as it lags the global average of 20% and far below 43% in France, the best performing country. It also pointed out that the share of women directors in companies set up after 1991 was higher as was also the case with top management.
While it may come as a surprise to many, small-cap firms listed on NSE fared better on diversity in their board composition with the share of women being 16.5% in 2023, compared with 13.5% for large caps. That’s probably because they had smaller boards as average number of women on boards of small cap firms was 2.5 compared to 4.7 for larger peers.
The paper, based on an analysis of over 2,700 NSE-listed companies, also brings out that women directors are not only younger – 57 years being the average age in 2020 compared to 65 years for their male counterparts – they also held more board positions on an average – 1.2 compared to 0.8 for men.
It also concluded that there is a clear case for appointing more women in top positions in the corporate sector as large companies with at least one woman director had better economic performance, higher financial stability and lower financial risk. “We find that higher shares of women in board positions are positively associated with employee ratings and sentiment scores, but the relationship is significant only when there is at least one woman in top management positions,” it said.
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