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Women hold 76 of 1,314 board seats across 116 unicorns
The New Indian Express Bhubaneswar
|March 08, 2025
The country's unicorn ecosystem has to improve gender diversity as women held only 5.8% or 76 of the 1,314 board seats across 116 unicorns, data from private market intelligence platform PrivateCircle Research reveals.
At the company level, 56 out of 116 unicorns (48%) had at least one woman director on their board, while just 13 (11%) of them had more than one woman director, according to the report.
This story is from the March 08, 2025 edition of The New Indian Express Bhubaneswar.
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