The percentage of women on Georgia’s public company boards has steadily increased every year. Until now, that is. Women directors make up 27.4 percent of the state’s corporate board, virtually the same as 2024, when women held 27.2 percent of director seats. The 2025 OnBoard study also showed some backsliding of key metrics. OnBoard tracks […]
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Eight public companies in Georgia have as many women on their boards as men
Georgia now has eight major public companies with at least as many women on their board as men. As recently as 2021, there were zero Georgia companies with gender parity on their boards.
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A new record: Women now top 25 percent of directors on Georgia’s public companies
For the first time ever, women now make up a quarter of all directors on the boards of Georgia’s public companies, according to OnBoard, an organization that’s been keeping count for decades.
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OnBoard: Women gaining ground on Georgia’s public company boards
A Georgia public company has six women directors on its board – a first in the state. That is just one example of how women are continuing to make strides on Georgia’s public company boards, according to OnBoard, an organization that has been tracking the number of women on Georgia’s public company boards since 1993.
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Study of women on Georgia boards finds ‘true momentum’
After more than 25 years of tracking the number of women on Georgia’s public company boards, OnBoard saw significant progress in 2018.
“For years, we’ve had moderate increases,” said Cheri Husney, the 2018 president of OnBoard. “This year it feels like we have got a real story to tell.”
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Women gaining critical mass on Georgia company boards
As published in the Atlanta Business Chronicle on November 3, 2017
A year ago, Atlanta-based Intercontinental Exchange Inc. only had one woman on its board. Today, the owner of the New York Stock Exchange has three, reflecting a growing trend among Georgia’s top public companies of having at least three women on their boards.
That’s one of the findings of the just-published 2017 OnBoard study of women directors and executives of Georgia’s publicly owned companies.
