By Sheryl Estrada
The drive to make diversity a priority should come from board leadership. However, PricewaterhouseCoopers’ (No. 5 on the Fair360, formerly DiversityInc Top 50 Companies for Diversity list) annual corporate survey found investors have been the ones pushing the needle toward diversity and inclusion.
The survey, called “The swinging pendulum: Board governance in the age of shareholder empowerment,” questioned more than 800 corporate directors of public companies. Seventy-one percent serve on the boards of companies with more than $1 billion in annual revenue.