Putting more women in the boardroom
TAN Sri Datuk Dr Rafiah Salim is confident about increasing the representation of women in boardrooms. As the director of NAM Institute for the Empowerment of Women (NIEW), she is concerned about plugging the leaking talent pipeline, which leads to a low supply of senior women leaders in the corporate sector. "That leaking pipeline is a reality; we lose a lot of women at ages 30 to 35," she says. "The result is that we have fewer women [in the workforce] at the higher levels." Established in 2006, NIEW on a larger scope is an agency under Malaysia's Ministry of Women, ...