A recent report analysing all companies listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange, IDX, for which annual reports were available, found that female members only made up 11.6 percent of the boards in 2011. While the study by the Centre for Governance, Institutions and Organisations of the National University of Singapore’s (NUS) Business School, revealed that Indonesia is still ahead of the other Asian countries, this lack of gender balance is worrying. In this modern era, especially when gender equality and boardroom representation of women have been in focus, one would expect more female leaders to be promoted and represented at the management and board level. After all, a recent McKinsey study...
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