Only 10% of Joint Venture Board Members Are Women

Joint venture boards are a great place for women (and other groups who are under-represented in senior management) to gain leadership and governance skills, which will position them for more senior positions within organizations or on public-company boards.  And more women on boards, research has shown, is correlated with higher performance. Yet the number of women serving on these boards is very low, in part because the boards don’t tend to get much scrutiny or public oversight. Diversifying board makeup in this way appears to be a solid win-win for individuals, joint ventures, and their parent corporations.