Channel NewsAsia – Promising signs, but progress in board diversity needs to be faster: Halimah

27 Oct 2016 23:16 | by Tang See Kit, Channel News Asia   SINGAPORE: While progress in board diversity has shown “promising signs” over the years, the pace of progress needs to be bigger and faster, Speaker of Parliament Halimah Yacob said on Thursday...

Good time to review S’pore’s Code of Corporate Governance: MAS

27 Sept 2016 |  by Claire Huang, BusinessTimes   Stakeholders say key areas that could be improved include board renewal, disclosures of corporate governance practices and gender diversity.   Read the rest of the article here.  ...

Harvard Business School Is Helping Women Break Into The Boardroom — Here’s How

10th Sept 2016 16:03:00 GMT | by Seb Murray $10,750 course to address the challenges women face on ascent to C-suite. The gender diversity drive at elite business schools just got another jolt of energy.   Harvard Business School will launch an executive...

Curtin research finds gender diverse boards reduces chance of company fraud

July 26th, 2016, 04:00PM | by Pia van Straalen | Canning Times   GENDER diverse corporate boards reduce incidents of company fraud, according to new research from the Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre (BCEC).   A comprehensive study of 128 publically listed...

Aspirational Targets and Hard Quotas

08 Apr 2016 06:00 | by Junie Foo   International Women’s Day came and went on last month. The gender diversity gap in Singapore’s corporate boardrooms is narrowing, albeit slowly, as compared with neighbouring countries such as Malaysia, Indonesia and...

Bloomberg – Singapore Loses to Less Developed Peers in Board Diversity

19 Apr 2016 |  by Jonathan Burgos   Singapore, Southeast Asia’s most advanced economy, is falling behind its less developed peers when it comes to women breaking the glass ceiling at companies.   The island nation is ranked near the bottom on...