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Gender diversity reforms have helped UK company boards, but they are failing in other countries

  • Written by Jannine Poletti-Hughes, Senior Lecturer in Accounting and Finance, University of Liverpool
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It may take close to 300 years to achieve gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls, according to a UN progress report on its sustainable development goals (SDG), Gender Snapshot 2022. This is way off the 2030 deadline set when the SDGs were adopted by UN member states in 2015.

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