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Having women on boards is good for women, good for the economy and good for society. A win-win-win outcome: how rare.

We're long past having to defend or explain why women should be on boards, given all the data that shows how companies with female as well as male directors perform better. It's unfortunate when companies with a large percentage of women constituents don't reflect that in their boardrooms.

I'd like to see women get on to boards and run companies despite the fact that men occupy the citadels of power.

There's an opportunity to make your board - and your company - smarter by adding diversity, especially of gender.

Corporate governance is a huge issue too. We don't have women on these corporate boards. More than half of the students in law school are women, more than half of the women, I think, in medical school now are women.

Every company I know is looking for more women at the table. Every board is looking for more women at the table. There's a reason why men want to understand the challenges women face, address them, because then they're going to be better hirers, attracters and retainers of women.

You can see the absence of women in governing bodies from Congress to state legislators, on corporate boards, in tenured positions in academia, and as forepeople in factories.

We want more women players to take up chess. There are few participants at the national level and hope it will grow.

We need women who are at the head of a boardroom, like at the head of the White House, at the head of kind of major scientific enterprises so that little girls everywhere can then think, you know what? I can do that, I want to do that, I will do that.

In particular, I want to set a challenge to public bodies and private companies to improve gender balance on their own boards.