These Asian Billionaires Don't Have Any Women on Their Boards
- Diversity lags in China, Korea, Japan -- especially in tech
- Men often choose ‘their best friends, not the best people’
Asia Is Worst Region for Having Women in Boardroom
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Even by Asia’s low standards when it comes to having women on corporate boards, the progress of the region’s billionaires is lagging: Most of the richest men in China, Japan and South Korea run companies with few, if any, female board members.
The situation is particularly extreme among Asia’s biggest tech companies with billionaire founders. Masayoshi Son’s SoftBank Group Corp., Takemitsu Takizaki’s bar-code reader and sensor-making Keyence Corp., Pony Ma’s Tencent Holdings Ltd., Robin Li’s Baidu Inc., Lee Kun-hee’s Samsung Electronics Co. and Chey Tae-won’s chipmaker SK Hynix Inc. have all-male boards.