Michigan Women's Directory aims to match more women to company boards
Twenty-nine publicly traded companies in Michigan had no women on their boards of directors when researchers at Wayne State University's Mike Ilitch School of Business reviewed data for Inforum in a report released in November 2015. The push for gender diversity at the very top of public companies is an issue that has gained steam in Europe — where some countries have mandated a specific percentage — and in the U.S. where investors like Warren Buffett have signed onto the voluntary 30% Club, a group that pushes for 30 percent as a minimum for women in a company's board seats. Many of Michigan's largest companies have hit that mark. But with nearly 30 companies with no women at all, it drags the overall percentage down to 12 percent overall among the top 100 public companies in Michigan.
