Research highlights need for gender targets for super fund boards

Description: AIST and the Equal Opportunity for Women in the Workplace Agency (EOWA) have joined forces to call for super funds to to move to gender diversity of at least 40% within the next five years, with current levels of women directors of not-for-profit funds at around 21%. EOWA Director, Ms Helen Conway said 25 years had elapsed since Australia first introduced affirmative action legislation to deal with barriers to womens’ workforce participation. Ms Conway has endorsed AIST’s target of having 40 per cent of board positions held by women by 2017.