Progress of women on boards still at snail’s pace

Women still make up only a fraction of board chairs in Southeast Asia, even if they make up on average 2.7% more of board seats now, underscoring the need for intervention from investors who can exercise voting rights and engage with investees to drive diversity. In the region, 17.1% of board seats were held by women in 2021, but only 5.3% of board chairs were female, according to the seventh edition of Deloitte’s Women in the Boardroom report, this year titled ‘Progress at a snai…