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PLCs with no women directors to be named and shamed
Published Tue, Sep 5, 2017 · 09:50 PM
Kuala Lumpur
MALAYSIA'S Prime Minister Najib Razak has served notice that public-listed companies (PLCs) that are slow to appoint women to their boards can expect to be publicly embarrassed next year under a name-and-shame campaign.
The government is upping the ante in an attempt to achieve its target of having women in 30 per cent of the seats on PLC boards - up from the current 16.8 per cent.
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