Understanding the Facts ION Reports
March 2009
March 2008
February 2007
February 2006
December 2004

News
"Slim to none. These three words sum up the gains women have made in board rooms and executive suites..." See theglasshammer.com for more by Liz O'Donnell Posted March 12, 2009

ION Report Finds Women Making Smallest Gains in Joining Public Corporate Boards
March 11, 2009

Moore, Heidi. "Boards are from Mars" Wall Street Journal March 11, 2008, Page C3
OR-See Blog for same article and comment

Women Scarce Among Top Compensated Executive Officers, ION Report Finds

Vote Your Proxy to Influence Board Composition, Most Women Don't - ION Develops Shareholders Guide Click here for survey graphs



Articles
Adams, Renee B. and Ferreira, Daniel, “Women in the Boardroom and Their Impact on Governance and Performance” (October 22, 2008). Available at SSRN

"Women Investors Slow to Use Proxies to Change Board Composition" Corporate Board Member Magazine On-Line. January 30, 2008. Click here to see article on the Corporate Board Member Magazine website.

Valenti, Alix. "A new glass ceiling in the boardroom?" Directors & Boards. 3rd Quarter 2007: page 20.

Wolfman, Toni G. "The Face of Corporate Leadership: Finally Poised for a Change?"
New England Journal of Public Policy. Spring 2007 View the PDF of this article.

Kramer, Vicki W., Konrad, Alison M., Erkut, Sumru and Hooper, Michele J.
"Critical Mass on Corporate Boards: Why Three or More Women Enhance Governance"
Directors Monthly. February 2007: page 20-22. View the PDF of this article.

Konrad, Alison M. and Vicki W. Kramer. "How Many Women Do Boards Need?"
Harvard Business Review. December 2006:page 22

Clark, Hannah. "Are Women Happy Under the Glass Ceiling?"
www.forbes.com. 8 Mar. 2006 (requires free registration to view)

Francis, Cheryl. "Women on Boards: The Number May Be Shrinking."
Directorship Magazine. February/March 2007:page 34

Hoffmann, David H. and Hendrickson, Alexandra. "Driving Diversity in the Boardroom."
CEO Magazine. December 2006:page 43-46

Wolfman, Toni G. "Pay It Forward, Change the Face of Business."
Boston Women's Business. July 2006

Websites
www.conference-board.org/
www.wcwonline.org/w-main.html
www.directorscouncil.com/Index.htm
www.catalystwomen.org/

Recommended Reading:
“Women on Corporate Boards of Directors,” edited by Susan Vinnicombe, Val Singh, Ronald J. Burke, Diana Bilimoria and Morten Huse (Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., Cheltenham, UK 2008). 
Available through publisher’s website.

Kramer, V.W., Konrad, A.M., & Erkut, S. (2006).Critical mass on corporate boards: Why three or more women enhance governance.(Wellesley Centers for Women, Report No WCW 11). Wellesley, MA: Wellesley Centers for Women.
Article available through Wellesley website.

Helfat, Constance E, Harris, Dawn, and Wolfson, Paul J. "The Pipeline to the Top: Women and Men in the Top Executive Ranks of U.S. Corporations."
Inside Loyola OnLine December 2006
More about this study can be found here.

Branson, Douglas M. No Seat at the Table: How Corporate Governance and Law Keep Women Out of the Boardroom.
New York: New York University Press, 2007
More about this book can be found here.