Progress slow on reaching gender parity on corporate boards

Jun 20, 20160

The percentage of women on the boards of S&P 500 companies is still only 20 percent, making little progress from the year before, a new national report has found.

And while at least a dozen of Minnesota’s public companies — led by Best Buy, Ameriprise Financial and Patterson Companies — have better representation than the nation as a whole, the percentage for all the state’s public companies lags behind the national average.