WANT TO GET YOUR BLOOD A’BOILIN’??  READ WHAT UK DIRECTORS HAD TO SAY ABOUT THE SHORTAGE OF WOMEN LEADERS ON BOARDS…AND IN THE WORKPLACE

• “All the ‘good’ women have already been snapped up.”

• “I don’t think women fit comfortably into the board environment”

• “There aren’t that many women with the right credentials and depth of experience to sit on the board—the issues covered are extremely complex”

• “Most women don’t want the hassle or pressure of sitting on a board”

• “My other board colleagues wouldn’t want to appoint a woman on our board.”

This according to a just out UK government-sponsored study, the Hampton-Alexander Review, that showed there were 15 women CEOs at FTSE 350 companies as of October 2017, compared with 18 women a year earlier, and that women made up 24.5% of the boards at the largest FTSE companies, up from 23% a year earlier and 9.5% in 2011, the first year of the analysis, and actually, not too bad a percentage at all.

But, while we can imagine some directors thinking things like this, it’s shocking to discover that board directors would say such things aloud in this day and age…although you have to grudgingly award them some points for their honesty…

And do we think that a majority of US directors think otherwise? The current numbers on women CEOs and Directors, and especially the shortages at mid-cap and small companies, say absolutely NO.