After Adding More Women to Boards, Companies Pivot to Race
- Protests have intensified scrutiny of corporate boards
- Big institutional investors plan to press for changes
The search for Black directors is on.
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Women, once a rarity on corporate boards, have made real gains in recent years following concerted campaigns by big investors to increase gender diversity and state legislation that set targets.
Now, after the nationwide Black Lives Matter protests spurred by the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police, the racial make-up of boards is getting a closer look, too.