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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The number of women holding board seats in UAE listed firms has more than doubled over in two years, Gulf News reports, quoting Aurora50’s research report Non-executive Board Careers in the UAE: A Path to Gender Balance.
ACCA, the global body for accountants, interviewed Aurora50’s Suzanne Locke as it investigated what the new UAE board quota for PrJSCs meant for women in leadership.
Aurora50’s Diana Wilde speaks to Bloomberg Daybreak: Middle East about gender parity on boards in the UAE, as ESCA sets a quota for listed companies of one woman per board.
