Women in Business. Business Ideas, In fact 10 percent of women on corporate boards in Australia in 2010 are tokenism.  it’s time to stop ‘fixing’ women and start fixing the system. For a while about forty women have been appointed to boards this year, but at least half already held board positions at other companies.

Julia Gillard as The Prime Minister  recently spoke in favour of companies setting targets to increase proportion of women in management, arguing that since merit is distributed equally between the sexes, companies should have a 50-50 gender split in top positions. She added and stopped short of imposing sanctions to enforce a quota.