Women directors represent a smallpercentage of directors but they typically earn more than men, a study byThe Corporate Library released yesterday finds, asreported on by Reuters.
Female directors in corporate
At the same time, the study said,women in corporate boardrooms are outnumbered eight to one.
“This makes being a directorone of the few jobs in the
The study found that overall,median total compensation for individual
The report looked at pay data formore than 25,000 directors at more than 3,200 companies.
The pay increases were driven in part by the addition of previously undisclosed forms of compensations this year, said study author Paul Hodgson, a senior research associate at the Corporate Library. New Regulatory rules now require public companies to disclose the cost of perks, cash incentives and other elements of total pay for top executives as well as directors.