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In other words, a gentle nudge in the the perspective of corporate governance and the economy. [...] This is the “comply” portion of the The share of women on boards among firms in the policy. [...] Clearly, a small portion of companies The low number of female board appointments is really are doing most of the heavy lifting where gender diversity a symptom of a problem, not a cause. [...] The GMI captures a small sub- firms in the energy and materials sectors, accounting for an group of the S&P/TSX – the TSX 60 – while the FP500 is outsized 50.4% of the composite index at the end of 2012, a mix of public, private and government enterprises. [...] Within the S&P 500, the economy), that weigh down the statistics of women’s repre- share of female board members is 10.7% for energy and sentation on boards for the sector as a whole (see Table 3).