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MEASURING DIVERSITY AT ANA MEMBER COMPANIES
1. ANA BOARD OF DIRECTORS AND SELECT MEMBER COMPANIES DIVERSITY BENCHMARK

The ANA Board of Directors
The ANA remains committed to having a diverse board, and considers factors including gender,
ethnicity, industry category, and region. The ANA board of directors has 43 members at this writing
(November 2021).

• Gender: 23 women, 20 men
• Ethnicity: 26 White Non-Hispanic, 5 Hispanic, 8 African American, 4 Asian

The ANA board is now 40 percent ethnically diverse, versus 33 percent as reported in our 2020 study
and 24 percent as reported in our 2019 study.

It remains a priority to maintain the diversity of the ANA board.

Gender Identity

Overall Female 63.8%
The gender identity for the
marketing departments of 2021 Male 36.1%
participating ANA member Non-Binary 0.1%
companies skews highly female:
63.8 percent female and 36.1
percent male, consistent with
prior studies. In 2021, “Non- Female 62.9%
Binary” was offered as an 2020 Male 37.1%
option for the first time.

Female 64.0%
2019
Male 36.0%

Female 62.7%
2018
Male 37.3%

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