What’s Delaying Boardroom Diversity
Summary
But as a Salesforce executive learned, there are sometimes hidden hurdles to making that happen, Andrew writes in his latest column. This is a problem, Andrew writes: “With so many employees trying to overcome barriers to promotions at their own employers, this creates a kind of systemic impediment to diversifying boardrooms.” The stats show that when women and people of color are hired on a board, they are more likely to be first-time directors than white men, less likely to be current or former chief executives, and tend to be younger. • None As Ms. Christoff told Salesforce’s general counsel, “given how few women and people of color report directly to Marc, there’s a disparate impact on those groups.” The policy complicates efforts to diversify corporate boards. As the executive search consultant James Drury told Andrew, “Until they sit in the seat of a board director, they don’t really understand the nature of the questions being asked in their own boardroom.” Winter storms push oil prices up sharply. Frigid temperatures across the U.S. led to increased demand for heating fuel and threatened to cut oil and gas production in Texas.