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ACGA features in SCMP: Hong Kong-listed firms could take 140 years to reach gender parity on boards at current rate, study finds

Jane Moir, Research Director, Hong Kong & Singapore, features in a SCMP article, “Hong Kong-listed firms could take 140 years to reach gender parity on boards at current rate, study finds”.

Jane’s comments are quoted below.

“If board diversity continues on its current organic growth trajectory – 2.4 per cent every nine years – we will reach gender parity … in the year 2161,”
“Hong Kong investors tend to let companies get away with a lot of things when it comes to diversity, and there is not the same push that you get in other markets,”
“Even soft quotas that incentivised the attainment of targets could make a difference”

To read the full article, please visit the South China Morning Post.