Just 27% of board appointments at Iseq listed companies last year were female

At Executive Director level, 13 appointments were made during the 18-month period without a single female appointment

(L-R) Gary Kennedy, Co-Chair of the Balance for Better Business Review Group; Mr Leo Varadkar T.D., Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment; and Anne-Marie Taylor, Programme Director of Balance for Better Business pictured at the launch of the Balance for Better Business third report.

Just 27% of all new board appointments at Iseq listed companies in the last year were female, while not a single woman was appointed to an executive director role in the 18 months to September 1 of this year.

That’s according to a new report from Balance for Better Business, the Government established initiative tasked with examining the gender mix at the top of Irish business, which also found that the target for all listed companies to have at least one woman on senior leadership teams by end of 2020 will be missed, with almost two in five (38%) listed companies still having no woman among senior leadership.