Gender Parody: How to Get Even More White Men on Your Corporate Board

Unlike the United States, many European countries have seen declines in the percent of white men on corporate boards. The author presents five strategies commonly used board recruitment strategies guaranteed to maintain the status quo.

In European countries like Norway, Belgium, Germany and France women hold 30 – 40% of corporate board seats. The legislative body of the European Union (the commission) has advocated for 40% of non-executive board members to be women. Among the FTSE 100 (Financial Times Stock Exchange) in the UK, women board directors have increased from 17.3% in 2013 to 27.7% in 2018 with aims of increasing that percentage to 33% by 2020.

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About the Author: DrStefanieKJohnson

Dr. Stefanie K. Johnson is an Associate Professor of Management at the Leeds School of Business, University of Colorado Boulder. She holds a Ph.D. from Rice University and is particularly interested in the effects of unconscious biases in the evaluation of women and minorities, with the goal of finding ways to mitigate those biases. Dr. Johnson brings bias to light with an engaging and humorous approach to advanced scientific research, which has earned her numerous accolades and invitations to present her work at meetings around the world, including the White House for a 2016 summit on diversity in corporate America on National Equal Pay Day, and the 2016 Harvard Negotiation and Leadership Conference. She has published over 70 journal articles and book chapters in outlets such as Harvard Business Review, Journal of Applied Psychology and The Academy of Management Journal. She has extensive consulting experience and has created and delivered leadership-development training with an emphasis on evidence-based practice. In recognition of her unique research, Dr. Johnson has been awarded nearly three million dollars in external funding to study leadership and create leadership development programs aimed at increasing safety. Media outlets featuring her work include: The Economist, Newsweek, Time, and CNN. Stefanie lives in the Boulder Bubble in Colorado with her Biology Professor husband, two young kiddos, and two old kitties.