Hideko Kunii To Be Honda’s First Female Board Member

Honda Motor Co. has appointed Hideko Kunii, a professor of engineering and gender-equality promotion at Shibaura Institute of Technology, as its first female board member.When Kunii takes office in June, pending approval at the company’s general shareholders’ meeting, she will be the first female director at a big Japanese carmaker; neither Toyota Motor Corp. nor Nissan Motor Corp. has a woman serving on their top boards.