Western Australian companies Chalice Mining and Silver Lake Resources appointed females to their boards this month, ending all-male representation among the ASX 200.
Investor pressure, the work of advocacy bodies and naming and shaming companies are some of the reasons Australia achieved 30 per cent representation of women on boards.
While there are more women on the boards of Australia's 200 largest listed companies than there were at this time last year, there remains substantial room for improvement.
Almost 40 per cent of not-for-profit organisations in Australia recorded a decrease in philanthropic funding in 2020, according to a survey by the Australian Institute of Company Directors.
Company directors in Western Australia have become increasingly positive over the past six months in marked contrast to their counterparts in other states.
The federal government has temporarily amended continuous disclosure provisions that apply to companies and their officers, citing concern about companies being exposed to opportunistic class actions.
ASX200 boards now feature 30 per cent women for the first time ever, according to the Australian Institute of Company Directors, leaving just seven companies in that index without female representation on their board.
New data from the Australian Institute of Company Directors shows that women make up only 29.7 per cent of directors on ASX 200 boards, with WA's NRW Holdings and Emeco Holdings among four companies that have no women on their boards.
