The requirement of appointment of woman director emanates from Section 149 of Companies Act, 2013.  SEBI has mandated that listed companies to appoint one woman director on its board.  Companies can appoint any woman as director who is not otherwise disqualified for appointment as a director in terms of requirements of the Companies Act, 2013 and such a director can be either executive or non-executive or independent or non-independent director. 

As per inputs of SEBI, details of woman directors on the boards of listed companies as on March 31, 2016 is as under: 

Particulars	BSE	NSE
Total number of listed companies	5451	1759
Number of companies that have appointed woman director	4128	1568
Number of companies that have not appointed woman director	1323	191
Number of non-compliant active companies	187	42
Number of non-compliant suspended companies	1136	149

SEBI has not mandated any requirement for listed companies to report whether a director is a family member of promoter or top executive.  Therefore, data related to woman director being family member of promoters or top executives is not available with stock exchanges. 

This was stated by Shri Arun Jaitley, Minister of Corporate Affairs in written reply to a question in the Rajya Sabha today.

Appointment of women director: mandate requires every listed company to have at least one woman on the board, with role flexible. The requirement that listed companies appoint a woman director stems from Section 149 of the Companies Act and is enforced by a SEBI mandate requiring each listed company to have at least one woman director, who may serve as executive, non executive, independent or non independent; SEBI reported compliance data as of March 31, 2016, and did not require disclosure of whether a woman director is a family member of a promoter or senior executive.