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The Female FTSE Board Report 2016
3.4.3 Current Trends on FTSE 100 Executive Committees
As can be seen from Figure 1 and Table 8, in the 80 companies for whom we obtained data, overall
19.4% (181 of 933) of Executive Committee members are female. This signals a shortage of women in
top senior roles. In the long run, this shortage will make it difficult to reach and sustain the target of 33%
women on boards set by the government in October 2015.
The average size of the Executive Committee is 11.6 members, but ranges from 5 to 23. We found a
positive significant correlation between size and diversity of Executive Committees, with larger ones
tending to be more gender balanced (r=.54, p<.01).
We congratulate the 12 companies who have 30% or more women on the Executive Committee, seven
of whom have female Executive Directors. Twenty FTSE 100 companies have female EDs and half (10)
of these are ranked in the top 20 of the list below. Female leadership does make a positive difference to
the likelihood of having more women on the Executive Committee.
752
181
80.6%
Men
19.4%
Women
FIGURE 1. GENDER COMPOSITION OF FTSE 100 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEES
FTSE 100 Companies