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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Gender diversity works both top-down and bottom-up, Aurora50’s Suzanne Locke tells The National as new quota is announced for private company boards.
The number of women on UAE-listed company boards has more than doubled from 3.5 percent to 8.9 percent in just two years, with 59.1 percent now having at least one female board member, Zawya reports, quoting Aurora50’s research report Non-executive Board Careers in the UAE: A Path to Gender Balance.
Aurora50’s Diana Wilde told an Emirates Society event that some of the UAE’s biggest companies were making progress on inclusion, Arab News reported.
