The following are recommended reading for anyone with an interest in board diversity:

• Australian Stock Exchange (ASX100) Women on Boards Analysis
• The Davies Report
• 2010 Female FTSE Report, Cranfield School of Management
• McKinsey Women Matter series 1 – 3
• The dynamics of diversity, Newton paper, September 2011
• Off-Ramps and On-Ramps: Keeping Talented Women on the Road to Success. Sylvia Ann Hewlett, Carolyn Buck Luce. Harvard Business Review, March 2005.
• The Sponsor Effect: Breaking Through the Last Glass Ceiling. Sylvia Ann Hewlett, Kerrie Peraino, Laura Sherbin, Karen Sumberg. Harvard Business Review Research Report, December 2010.
• Why Men Still Get More Promotions Than Women. Herminia Ibarra, Nancy M Carter, Christine Silva. Harvard Business Review.
• Centred Leadership: How Talented Women Thrive Joanna Barsh, Susie Cranston, Rebecca A Craske. McKinsey Quarterly.
• Women and the Vision Thing. Herminia Ibarra, Otilia Obodaru. Harvard Business Review.
• When Women Rule The World? Prof Lynda Gratton. Future of Work.
• When Women Talk About Themselves, They Earn More. Marcia Reynolds. Huffington Post.
• Women on Boards. Department for Business Innovation and Skill.
• Ambition and Gender in the Workplace. The Institute of Leadership and Management.
• Feminist Myths and Magic Medicine Catherine Hakim. Centre for Policy Studies.
• The Bottom Line: Corporate Performance and Women’s Representation on Boards. Lois Joy, Nancy M Carter, Harvey M Wagner, Sriram Narayanan. Catalyst.
• The Changing of the Boards: the Impact on Firm Valuation of Mandated Female Board Representation by Kenneth R. Ahern, Amy K. Dittmar, 20 May 2011.
• Why women are good for business by Claire Braund, 2011.
• The Winston Churchill Memorial Trust of Australia by Claire Braund, 11 January 2012.
• Gender Trades by Alan Gregory, Emma Jeanes, Rajesh Tharyan and Ian Tonks, 23 February 2012.
• Women on boards reporting on diversity in the annual report, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP, May 2012
• Movers & Shakers May 2012, Sapphire Partners, 25 May 2012
• Shifting the needle - increasing the number of women in UK Partnerships, McKinsey analysis of 30% Club Professional Services Firms Initiative