So Many Dicks

A new campaign from cosmetics brand e.l.f. Beauty aims to encourage diversity in American boardrooms by highlighting the prevalence of ‘Dicks’. Some of the statistics that it uses to makes its case (drawn from 4000+ listed companies):

  • There were 566 men named Richard, Rick, or Dick (Dicks) serving on these public company boards.
  • Black women and Asian women barely outnumber men named Dick, with only 806 Black Women, 774 Asian Women.
  • There were only 283 Hispanic Women on these same boards, only half the number of “Dicks.”
  • There are 19x more men named Dick than the 29 women of Middle Eastern descent on these boards.
So Many Dicks