Near Equity for Female Trustees

By Julie Hare for The Australian. The governing bodies of Australian universities have an average of 43 percent female representation, compared to just 16.6 percent in the country's 200 companies, new analysis by The Australian newspaper reveals. A 2010-11 survey of American university boards by the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges showed that men outnumbered women by more than two to one on both private college boards (69.8 percent to 30.2 percent) and public boards (71.6 percent to 28.4 percent). Read more...