A new StatsCan report looked at some 10,100 companies conducting business in Canada - publicly traded and private corporations, along with government business enterprises such as Canada Post - and found overall that just 18.1% of director seats were held by women in 2017; 61.2% had zero women, 27.7% had one female director and just 11.1% had more than one.
Starting in 2015, the Ontario Securities Commission required companies listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange to disclose the number and proportion of women on their boards, among other requirements. The percentage of women being appointed