Mumbai: Nearly half of the NSE-listed companies are yet to appoint a woman director on their board even as the October 1 deadline for compliance with SEBI's requirement in this regard is only a month away.

As many as 755 out of a total 1,469 NSE-listed companies, or 51 per cent of the companies, were still to appoint a woman director as on August 31, 2014, which means a required rate of 25 appointments per day for the next one month, indianboards.com, a joint initiative of PRIME Database and NSE, said here.