Female Board Representation’s Surprising Champion Is Africa

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In Africa, one in four board members are female.

Photographer: Waldo Swiegers/Bloomberg
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Africa, a continent blighted by the world’s highest maternal mortality rate and scant legal protection for women, beats all other regions globally in the proportion of females on company boards.