Research & Reports

Merit, Power & Progress

A Proxy Season and Annual Report Guide to 2022

The 2022 proxy season will continue to be affected by the aftershocks of the COVID-19 pandemic...

2021 Gender Diversity In Board Of Directors In Mexico

This research was a collaborative project between 50/50 Women on Boards, the Research Center for Women in Senior Management (CIMAD) of IPADE Business School and BIVA (Institutional Stock Exchange).

2020 Top 25 IPO Report

An Annual Review of Women’s Status on the Top 25 IPO Company Boards, Ranked by Market Cap.

2020 When Women Lead Report

We reviewed companies in the Russell 3000 (R3000) Index, the largest publicly traded companies in the U.S., to uncover if gender at the top influenced boardroom gender diversity. Our 50/50WOB Gender Diversity Index findings are unequivocal.

2019 Top 25 IPO Report

A full year before Goldman Sachs announced that it would not take a company public if the board didn’t have at least one diverse candidate with an emphasis on women, the largest IPOs of 2019 demonstrated a historic shift in board composition.

2017 Top 25 IPO Report

For years we have heard that men largely populate the boards of IPO companies. We decided to test that precept.

2016 When Women Lead Report

In our mid-year report, 2020 Women on Boards delved into the board data of the 2015 Fortune 1000 companies to research how many women directors there were, whether they were on multiple boards