The Female FTSE Board Report 2017

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The Female FTSE Board Report 2017

FTSE 100 Companies

3.4.3 Composition of Boards by Role The growing representation of women on the boards of FTSE 100 companies is not equally represented across different roles. Women accounted for 33% of NEDs by 2017, rising steadily from 15% in 2007. However, in September 2017 women remained a small minority of both EDs (10%) and particularly as CEOs (7%). These figures are larger than in 2007, when they were 4% and 3% respectively. Although progress has been made across all roles, the pace of increase has been more rapid for non- executive roles with nearly 2 percentage points progress annually on average. This has not been matched by changes at the CEO level, which can only be qualified as glacial, with an increase of just 0.4 percentage points per year on average.

FIGURE 5. COMPOSITION OF FTSE 100 BOARDS BY GENDER AND ROLE 2007-2017

2007

2008

2009

2010

2011

2012

2013

2014

2015

2016

2017

CEO

97%

96%

95%

96%

97%

96%

95%

94%

93%

7%

6%

3%

4%

5%

4%

3%

4%

5%

EXEC

96%

95%

94%

93%

94%

93%

91%

90%

90%

10%

10%

9%

7%

7%

6%

6%

5%

4%

NON- EXEC

85%

85%

84%

78%

78%

74%

72%

68%

67%

33%

32%

28%

26%

22%

22%

16%

15%

15%