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What made so many people unwillingly to put their names on my petitions to get a single woman on the boards of Land O’Lakes and Discovery Communications? I decided it was all about fear, which comes in these following flavors.
Usually, when I talk about adding women to boards, I’m asked one question: “Why?” Everyone wants to know why we should add women to leadership positions. My answer is, “why not?”
The business community in Asia-Pacific has many reasons to ratchet up its low numbers of women on corporate boards. Candidates are out there and available to fill the pipeline and the posts. They just need training, mentoring, networking and sponsors to become more visible.