TORONTO, Oct. 16, 2014 − The Ontario Securities Commission and other provincial and territorial securities regulators have announced new rules designed to increase the proportion of women on corporate boards. Companies will now be required to report annually on their plans to do this.

Professor Aaron Dhir, of Osgoode Hall Law School at York University, is available to comment on the new rules and their implications for the socio demographic composition of corporate boards. Dhir is a Visiting Professor of Law at Yale Law School this year. His book on corporate governance and diversity, titled Challenging Boardroom Homogeneity, will be published by Cambridge University Press in February 2015. He was one of the 8 invited expert panellists at the public roundtable the OSC convened last Fall, as part of its rule drafting process.

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Janice Walls, Media Relations, York University 416 736 2100 ext. 22101