Gender Diversity In Corporate Canada: Canada's Securities Regulators Publish 2014–2018 Statistics

Canada's securities regulators have published their fourth study showing key trends relating to gender diversity on public company boards of directors and in executive officer positions. The "Report on Fourth Staff Review of Disclosure Regarding Women on Boards and in Executive Officer Positions"¹ tracks changes in gender diversity metrics between 2014 (when new disclosure rules were adopted) and 2018 for TSX-listed companies whose fiscal years ended between December 31, 2017 and March 31, 2018. As Canada's largest banks have fiscal year ends of October 31 they were excluded from the study, which skews the data somewhat as the banks have above-average numbers of women in leadership positions.