We now have resources of our own that we invest. We have achieved an economic status that affords us the opportunity to make decisions. So we are the consumers and we are the shareholders. Women are now looking to see who is running the companies that we invest in and whether we are represented. We want to know that there is a women's voice in the corporate decision-making.
Statistics show that companies with a woman on the board tend to be more profitable.
A woman's skills may be the same as any man's on the board, but her perspective tends to be different. She has a different set of life experiences. Very often when you put two different perspectives together one isn't right and one isn't wrong. What you tend to get is a perspective that neither have ever thought of before. The funny thing is that men are asking us the same question.