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Financial Times.com special report - women at the top poll

The push to increase the number of women in the UK's boardrooms gathered pace this month with a new consultation paper on gender diversity reporting.

Opinion piece by Joycelynne Scutt "Mentoring is in the news. Businesswomen say nothing will change in top levels of management without it. Women need mentoring to gain board appointments, to become government department heads and CEOs, to succeed at any higher post. Now, with mentoring such a byword, even businesses are told that their boards are obsolete, that they require mentors instead. In that scenario, boards are out. Mentors are in".

Australian Centre for Leadership for Women: To empower women to develop their own style of leadership based on a combination of their individual strengths and an understanding of leadership theory and practice.

The Australian Census of Women in Leadership measures the status of women on boards and women executive managers in Australia's top 200 organisations listed on the Australian Stock Exchange. Applying the business principle of what gets measured, gets done, the Census is designed to establish accurate statistics to enable international benchmarking.

The first online professional, refereed journal for women in leadership

In Australia, women's wages are set to rise dramatically with a landmark pay equity decision today. The national industrial relations tribunal, Fair Work Australia, has found that women in the health and community services industries suffer inequality in their pay rates and that this is at least partly based on gender discrimination.

In a recent proposal put forward to Canada's major banks, Quebec-based shareholder rights group MÉDAC (Mouvement d'éducation et de défense des actionnaires) asked the Big Five to commit to achieving equal representation between men and women on their boards in 10 years. Shareholders strongly rejected the proposals, with an average of just 11% voting in favour. A recent poll by Compas Inc. showed that Canadian CEOs didn't like the idea, either, with just 4% expressing support for MÉDAC's proposal. Is this universal or do Australian CEOs think differently?

The latest percentage of women on ASX 200 boards is 12.8% (9 August 2011) A total of 70 boards in the ASX 200 still do not have any women

Women on Boards (WOB) is the leading advocate for improving gender diversity on Australian boards.

An article you might find interesting...published in 2008

Article by Margaret A. McKenna

Also a great video on this website...go take a look!