“Public real-estate companies are adding slightly more women than men as directors to their boards, a sign that this male-dominated industry may be starting to heed a call for gender diversity. Boards of real-estate investment trusts added 60 new female members, or 50.4% of the 119 new directors, during the 2019 spring proxy season, according to professional-services company Ferguson Partners. During the 2018 proxy period, 52% of the newly elected directors were women, marking the first time females comprised the majority of new board members.”
