Almost a third of family firms in Gulf have female board members - The National

Almost a third of family-owned businesses across the GCC have one or more female board members, a study shows.

The Pearl Initiative, a private non-profit organisation set up to improve transparency and accountability in Arab countries, interviewed this month representatives from more than 100 family-owned firms as part of a report on governance practices.

Of those questioned, 32 per cent had at least one woman sitting on the board - a figure that dwarfs established economies.

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