#GAReads | …13 tech companies that have recently diversified their boardrooms

Amazon board member Indra Nooyi. Photo credit: Andy Mettler, World Economic Forum [CC BY-SA], via Wikimedia Commons.

“Facebook just named two women to its board as it seeks gender parity — here are 13 tech companies that have recently diversified their boardrooms”:

Facebook announced last week that it was adding a former McKinsey executive and Estée Lauder's CFO to its board, meaning 40% of the company's directors are now women. That's a significant change from 2012 when the social networking giant went public with an all-male board.

Thanks to a variety of factors, including the #MeToo movement, employee walkouts, and calls to action from the investor community, there's been a growing awareness about the lack of diversity across all industries, and especially within tech.

While many major tech companies, including Facebook, started releasing annual workforce diversity stats several years ago, those efforts alone have not yet led to substantial gains for underrepresented groups — particularly among upper leadership levels and within corporate boardrooms.

Read Tyler Sonnemaker’s full article at Business Insider here…