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Recent news that women hold 5% of GCC board seats, from Aurora50 and Heriot-Watt University’s inaugural index, received widespread coverage.
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.
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.
