Cooperative Research Centres (CRCs)
CRCs are funded jointly by the Federal Government, industry and other commercial and research partners. A CRC is an incorporated or unincorporated organisation, formed through collaborative partnerships between publicly funded researchers and end users. CRCs must comprise at least one Australian end-user (either from the private, public or community sector) and one Australian higher education institution (or research institute affiliated with a university). Improvements in this sector may also have been due to increases in the change in composition of the sector focuses of CRCs.
2020
There were 27 CRCs at the time of revew (January 2020) and there has only been an incremental increase in the number of female directors (now a shade over 30%) since 2016. This is despite the best efforts of the CRC Association, which has put considerable effort into its diversity initiative. Those companies with fewere than 25% women on the board include: The HEARing CRC, CRC for Living with Autism, iMove CRC, Rail Manufacturing CRC, Pork CRC, CRC for Optimising Resource Extraction, Innovative Manufacturing CRC, CRC for Greenhouse Gas Technologies and CRC for Contamination Assessment and Remediation of the Environment.
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2018
Of the 29 Cooperative Research Centres reviewed 6 entities had 40% or more board positions held by women. Women hold 28.3% of board positions, with 2 entities failing to have a female on their board. It is disappointing that this sector appears to be gradually improving its board gender diversity at such a slow rate. 2018 data revealed a low 2.8% increase in female representation on boards from 2016 data.
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2016
Despite the promising decrease in the percentage of boards that don't have a female director, which has improved from 14.8% in 2015 to 11.1% in 2016, this level of progress has not been mirrored in other statistics. Holistically, only a quarter of directors in CRCs are women. This means a growth of 0.9% since 2015. Although these statistics are still moving in the right direction, this marginal increase is in stark contrast to the commendable percentage increase between 2014 and 2015 of 7.1%.
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2015
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2013
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2012
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2011
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