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GCC Board Gender Index Report 2024 – In the media

Illustration of silhouettes of diverse workers, including Gulf Arab woman and man, with backdrop of silhouetted people in a meeting and three vertical arrows to denote a graph. Image by Wepik on Freepik
Suzanne Locke 9 May 2024
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The recent news that women hold 5.2 percent of board seats across the UAE and 10.8 percent of seats in the UAE, from the inaugural GCC Board Gender Index 2024 by Aurora50 and Heriot-Watt University Dubai, was widely covered by the media across the region

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