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Increase the pace of gender diversity in the boardroom

Overall trends on the board diversity in U.S. public company boardrooms are sobering. A group of industry leaders, including senior business executives, national women's organizations, institutional investors, corporate governance experts and board members, gathered for a high-level summit in late 2011 to address the lack of gender diversity in boardrooms. Prompted by what participants called "glacial progress" on increasing the number of women on U.S. corporate boards - a number which has essentially remained stagnant over the past five years - the leaders formed the Thirty Percent Coalition.