The Deloitte Global released women in boardroom report in its seventh edition which said that women hold only 17.1% board seats in India. However, this has increased.
In fact, in 2014, the figure stood at 9.4%.
The number of women chairs have increased in countries like Canada, Austria, Italy, Ireland, Portugal, Poland, Spain, US and UK.
Also, the number of women taking up CEO roles in India increased in 2021. Around 4.7% of the CEOs in India were women in 2021 which were was 3.4% in 2018. Globally, the women CEO percentage was 33.5%. It was 19.4% in 2018.
The seventh edition of the report updated the women status in the boards across 72 countries. Currently the trend is shifting towards diverse board working on unified purpose.