Women Board Directors Internationally

Women board directors were less than 10 percent of the total number of directors of companies headquartered in Australia, the UK, Germany, France, Singapore, Hong Kong, Spain, Italy and Japan. Only Norway (greater than 25 percent), where federal legislation required all boards to have at least two women by 2006 and to have 40 percent women by 2008, and Sweden (almost 20 percent) had percentages of women directors greater than those calculated for the U.S.
(source: Ethical Investment Research Services, How Global is Good Corporate Governance? 2004)