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A range of organisations maintain data on the gender balance of executive and board positions in Australia and overseas including the following:

Women on Boards publishes a boardroom diversity index. It also has guidelines for gender balance performance and reporting, including setting measurable targets for increased participation by women. Its website includes case studies of individual women, although these do not indicate whether targets or quotas were involved in their selection.

• Women’s Leadership Institute Australia–lists women members
• Executive Women Australia–lists women members
• Australian Government Workplace Gender Equality Agency, Targets and quotas,19 November 2013
• Australian Institute of Company Directors 2014 report shows that 17.6 per cent of ASX 200 board directors are women
• KPMG report 2013 (showed that the majority of Australia’s listed companies now have policies to get more women into top corporate roles, but had only managed one woman for every six men on the boards of Australia’s top 200 companies)
• Australian Bureau of Statistics ‘Women in leadership’ statistics and analysis
• Deloitte’s Women in the boardroom: a global perspective
• Australian Financial Review’s list of women on ASX-listed company boards in 2011 (quotas/targets not mentioned in analysis, but networks and qualifications highlighted).
• Chief Executive Women, CEW has compiled a list of recent articles relating to gender diversity on corporate boards.

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