{"id":235,"date":"2015-08-11T14:33:22","date_gmt":"2015-08-11T14:33:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globewomen.org\/CWDInet\/?p=235"},"modified":"2017-08-15T19:11:40","modified_gmt":"2017-08-15T19:11:40","slug":"2004-cwdi-report-on-fortune-global-200","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globewomen.org\/CWDINet\/index.php\/2004-cwdi-report-on-fortune-global-200\/","title":{"rendered":"2004 CWDI Report: Women Board Directors of Fortune Global 200 Companies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/globewomen.org\/CWDINet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2004-Fortune-200-001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2073\" src=\"https:\/\/globewomen.org\/CWDINet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2004-Fortune-200-001-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"2004 Fortune 200 001\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/globewomen.org\/CWDINet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2004-Fortune-200-001-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/globewomen.org\/CWDINet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2004-Fortune-200-001-50x50.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: left;\">2004 CWDI Report: Women Board Directors of Fortune Global 200 Companies<\/h2>\n<h3>The 2004 CWDI Report: Women Board Directors of Fortune Global 200 Companies focuses on 200 companies ranked within the 2004 Fortune 200 listing. The study found that women held 10.4% of board seats.<\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">KEY FINDINGS<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The majority (73.5%) of the 200 largest companies in the world, as ranked by <em>Fortune <\/em>in 2004, have at least one woman director on their board.<\/li>\n<li>Only 10.4% of all board seats in the <em>Fortune<\/em> Global 200 companies are held by women.\u00a0 Almost half of the companies with women directors (45.6%) have only one woman director.\u00a0 The glass ceiling in corporate directorships is solidly in place.<\/li>\n<li>78 U.S. companies are in the <em>Fortune<\/em> Global 200 and all have women on their boards.\u00a0 On these 78 companies, 17.5% of all board directors are women, leading all the countries represented by <em>Fortune<\/em> Global 200 companies.<\/li>\n<li>Japan, the world\u2019s second largest economy, with 27 companies in the <em>Fortune <\/em>Global 200, has only 3 women-held board seats out of 431 (0.7%).<\/li>\n<li>The Top Ten ranking of companies with the highest percentage of women board directors includes 27 companies, dominated by the United States with 20.\u00a0 The remaining companies are all European:\u00a0 three German companies, along with two British, one Norwegian and one Dutch company round out the Top Ten.<\/li>\n<li>Albertsons, a U.S. retail food and drugstore chain, ranks first globally and nationally among the <em>Fortune<\/em> Global 200 with 50% of its board seats held by women (5 out of 10).<\/li>\n<li>Statoil, a petroleum refining company based in Norway, ranks second globally with 44.4% of its board made up of women (4 out of 9).<\/li>\n<li>European companies in the <em>Fortune<\/em> Global 200 have lower percentages of women directors compared to the U.S. The United Kingdom has 12.5% of its board directors being female.\u00a0 Germany has 10.3%, the Netherlands has 8.6%, followed by Switzerland (7.7%), France (7.2%), and Italy (1.8%).<\/li>\n<li>The large majority of women board directors are non-executive, \u2018outside\u2019 members.\u00a0 This is a positive in the U.S., where independent non-executive directors are the norm.\u00a0\u00a0 However, it is a minus in other countries where \u2018inside\u2019 directors (senior management) wield more power.<\/li>\n<li>53 companies in the <em>Fortune<\/em> Global 200 have no women directors, and they include some of the largest companies in the world \u2013 Germany\u2019s DaimlerChrysler, Japan\u2019s Toyota, France\u2019s AXA.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Sponsored By:<\/strong><\/em><\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/globewomen.org\/CWDINet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/logo-heidrick.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-1521 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/globewomen.org\/CWDINet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/logo-heidrick-300x95.jpg\" alt=\"logo heidrick\" width=\"224\" height=\"71\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">PILLSBURY WINTHROP LLP<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/globewomen.org\/CWDINet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/logo-sbc.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1522 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/globewomen.org\/CWDINet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/logo-sbc-300x197.jpg\" alt=\"logo sbc\" width=\"163\" height=\"107\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To <strong> order a copy<\/strong> of the 2004 CWDI Report on Fortune Global 200, <a href=\"https:\/\/globewomen.org\/CWDINet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/CWDI-Order-Form.pdf\"><strong> please click here<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2004 CWDI Report: Women Board Directors of Fortune Global 200 Companies The 2004 CWDI Report: Women Board Directors of Fortune Global 200 Companies focuses on 200 companies ranked within the 2004 Fortune 200 listing. 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