Oh yes. For women on boards, I think it's important to create that diversity in different ways, not just awards and pillories, but a change of the culture. To change the culture, you need to have some force at the beginning or it doesn't change.
I have an example for you. If you want to hire someone for your organization, whom do you hire? You hire someone you can connect with, someone you feel more comfortable working with. If you look at the boardrooms, most of the people are white males. It is definitely more difficult for them to connect with someone with an accent, a woman who doesn't have the same culture that they grew up with. You are living in Canada with so many women, especially in the STEM fields, in science, technology and engineering, who are immigrants and have accents. They don't know the culture.
The first step, I would say, is to have that comply or explain in the boardroom as a starting point to secure the future.