Gender-balanced boards: Singapore has to work harder to catch up with peers

SINGAPORE's progressive agenda to get more women into the boardroom has followed a calculated pace with positive results, particularly in the past five years.

But the state of play in the city state's gender-balanced goal for boards has always had two sides - the good and the bad. Most encouragingly, women are filling up more board seats despite the absence of a legal mechanism.

To be sure, Singapore's efforts to narrow the gender gap in boards have unfolded amid an internati…