The country’s president, Halimah Yacob, has launched a new council designed to increase the number of women on company boards. The proportion of women on the boards of Singapore’s top 100 listed firms has already doubled to 15% over the last four years. SINGAPORE - In the last four years, the proportion of women on the boards in Singapore's top 100 listed companies doubled to 15 per cent. But there is still much work for companies and governments to do in order to ensure that more women are able to join boardrooms across the world. In 2017, the DAC established targets of raising female board participation in listed companies to 20% by 2020, 25% by 2025 and 30% by 2030.
The country’s president, Halimah Yacob, has launched a new council designed to increase the number of women on company boards. The proportion of women on the boards of Singapore’s top 100 listed firms has already doubled to 15% over the last four years. But there is still much work for companies and governments to do in order to ensure that more women are able to join boardrooms across the world. In 2017, the DAC established targets of raising female board participation in listed companies to 20% by 2020, 25% by 2025 and 30% by 2030.