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Top 100 listed firms miss gender diversity target

Sharanya Pillai
Published Sun, Apr 11, 2021 · 09:50 PM

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    Singapore

    SINGAPORE'S 100 largest listed companies raised the proportion of female directors on their boards slightly last year, but still fell short of the target set for 2020, the Council for Board Diversity (CBD) said in a report on Monday.

    As at end-2020, women made up 17.6 per cent of directors on the boards of the 100 largest primary-listed companies on the Singapore Exchange (SGX). This marks an improvement of 1.4 percentage points from the previous year.

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