Women make up one-third of S&P/TSX composite board positions for first time: ISS

ISS Corporate Solutions, Inc. says for the first time ever women hold one-third of the board director positions across companies listed on the S&P/TSX composite.

The corporate governance company says that when it ended its analysis in January, women held 33.7 per cent of board seats, up from 27.9 per cent in January 2020.

By comparison, women held 32.3 per cent of all U.S. S&P 500 directorships.

ISS says the number of female chief executives across S&P/TSX composite companies jumped from six in 2020 to nine in 2023, and the number of female non-employee chairs rose to 22 from 13 over the same period.