Gender breakdown

A small sampling of public company boards submitted to the state mirror longstanding trends: low gender and ethnic diversity. Stacked up against department heads in Illinois government, corporations fall short. The chart below does not reflect that Groupon added two female members in April.

Note: Corporations looked at are Cabot Microelectronics, Caterpillar, Conagra, Groupon, Hub Group, Huron Consulting Group, Navistar, OFS Credit, Old Republic, Stepan and Telephone & Data Systems. Government numbers include city of Chicago, Cook County, and state of Illinois appointed department heads. *Asian American/Pacific Islander/Middle Eastern/North African
Source: Illinois Secretary of State, Crain’s reporting Get the data