The Equilar Gender Diversity Index looks
at the female representation on the boards of the biggest companies in the United States.
Not exact matches
Today's appointment by Independence Group of its first
female board member has taken it off the list of ASX200 companies lacking
female representation on their boards, although four other Western Australian businesses remain among those still to adopt gender diversity
at board level.
The business community's continued failure to increase
female representation at board and executive level has drawn fresh arguments for mandatory quotas and more flexible working conditions, with the
Microsoft has diverse
representation at its highest ranks, including an African - American board chairman, an Indian CEO and a
female CFO, but the overall statistics aren't flattering: the company is 61 % white and 71 % male.
The top three companies that had the most
female representation were Tootsie Roll Industries
at 75 percent (three women of four directors), Connecticut Water Service, Inc.,
at 62.5 percent (five women of eight directors) and Williams - Sonoma, Inc. (four women of seven directors).
But if the business case was so compelling, why had
female representation on boards stalled
at around 10 % in Canada?
Most Canadian business leaders agree that more women are needed on corporate boards —
female representation has hovered
at about 10 % for years.
Women are being appointed to ASX200 boards
at a faster rate than ever, but a number of major Western Australian companies remain without any
female representation on their boards.
Lightspeed could add just one more
female investing partner, and,
at 9 percent
representation, it would be above the industry average.
At Marks & Spencer,
female board
representation has risen to 41.7 %, from 27.3 % four years ago.
Female board
representation at the S&P 500 has not increased significantly over the past decade and,
at 18.7 %, pales in comparison to the figures in most of Europe.
But more than anything, in Lean In and its correspondent campaigns, Sandberg has argued for the importance of
female representation at every level in creating a more equitable society.
Patricia is frequently quoted in leading publications as a champion for
female and diverse
representation in Silicon Valley, Venture Capital, and the technology sector
at large.
The MSCI Canada IMI Women's Leadership Select Index is based on the MSCI Canada IMI Index and aims to include companies which are leaders in Canada in terms of
female representation on boards and in executive leadership positions and have
at least 30 %
female directors, or
at least three
female directors, or two
female directors and one woman in a current executive leadership role.
The effect is small, but statistically significant, making it important to consider in policies aimed
at increasing
female representation in politics.
Women in Politics is a four - part series exploring the lack of
female representation at all levels of politics and what keeps them away, through a sampling of 30 women who hold public office.
Women in Politics, a four - part series exploring the lack of
female representation at all levels of politics and what keeps them away, was born out of a feature on women in politics that first appeared in the September / October edition of Women@Work magazine, which also featured U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand on the cover.
Is what happened — putting herself forward as a
female candidate, only to be asked to step aside for Owen Smith — an example of Labour slipping behind the Tories on the
representation of women
at the highest ranks?
The number of men to women on the council, however, remains unchanged — with
female representation at 33 percent, despite making up 52.7 percent of Albany's population.
Approximately equal numbers of women and men enter and graduate from medical school in the United States and United Kingdom.1 2 In northern and eastern European countries such as Russia, Finland, Hungary, and Serbia, women account for more than 50 % of the active physicians3; in the United Kingdom and United States, they represent 47 % and 33 % respectively.4 5 Even in Japan, the nation in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development with the lowest percentage of
female physicians,
representation doubled between 1986 and 2012.3 6 However, progress in academic medicine continues to lag, with women accounting for less than 30 % of clinical faculty overall and for less than 20 % of those
at the highest grade or in leadership positions.7 - 9 Understanding the extent to which this underrepresentation affects high impact research is critical because of the implicit bias it introduces to the research agenda, influencing future clinical practice.10 11 Given the importance of publication for tenure and promotion, 12 women's publication in high impact journals also provides insights into the degree to which the gender gap can be expected to close.
Research suggests
female developers are as skilled
at coding as their male counterparts, despite their poor
representation in the tech world.
Actress Rita Wilson angled for equal
representation at the Critics Choice Awards, accusing the awards ceremony for failing to show the film clips of
female nominees.
At this year's South by Southwest, filmmaker Miranda Bailey spoke on a panel with critics Anne Powers and Claudia Puig and actor Samantha Mathis about the lack of
female representation in film and music criticism before announcing the launch of a new website, CherryPicks, aiming to upend the male majority and offer an alternative rankings roundup to Rotten Tomatoes.
Critics began raising new concerns about Franco on Sunday night, after he was seen wearing a Time's Up pin, in support of increased
female representation and vigilance against sexual harassment and assault,
at the Globes ceremony.
A year after #OscarsSoWhite highlighted racial biases in Hollywood, #OscarsSoMale takes aim
at the lack of
female representation in the film industry.
This narrow focus comes
at the cost of
female representation within the film.
British director Lynne Ramsay is set to lead a quartet of
female film - makers into competition
at next month's Cannes film festival — the largest
representation in the event's 64 - year history.
DC beat Marvel
at having the first successful
female superhero movie, so while Marvel is bringing it right now in terms of POC
representation, there is still a long way to go Disney.
Meanwhile, Sebastian Lelio's «A Fantastic Woman» is a
female - oriented narrative that marks a significant breakthrough for transgender
representation at the Oscars — and represents last year's surge in LGBTQ - themed cinema.
Natalie Portman is being praised for subtly criticising the lack of
female representation in the Best Director category she was presenting
at the Golden Globes.
I hope you agree with the list and I hope I've helped
at least a few more people understand just how important a character Lightning is when it comes to
female representations in Video Gaming.
We are proactively working to decrease this disparity and we look forward to seeing
representation of our
female colleagues continue to grow in all roles and
at all levels as we actively recruit, train and encourage women to pursue career opportunities
at Rockstar North and within our industry.»
This talk looks
at the physical
representation of
female player characters in current and past games and discusses misconceptions, myths and ways to improve them
A brief survey of
representations of life - drawing sessions reveals: an all male clientele drawing from the
female nude in Rembrandt's studio; men working from male nudes in 18th - century
representations of academic instruction in The Hague and Vienna; men working from the seated male nude in Bailly's charming painting of the interior of Houdon's studio
at the beginning of the 19th century; Mathieu Cochereau's scrupulously veristic Interior of David's Studio, exhibited in the Salon of 1814, reveals a group of young men diligently drawing or painting from a male nude model, whose discarded shoes may be seen before the models» stand.
A brief survey of
representations of like - drawing sessions reveals an all male clientele drawing from the
female nude in Rembrandt's studio; men working from male nudes in 18th - century
representations of academic instruction in The Hague and Vienna; men working from the seated male nude in Boily's charming painting of the interior of Houdon's studio
at the beginning of the 19th century; Mathieu Cochereau's scrupulously veristic Interior of David's Studio, exhibited in the Salon of 1814, reveals a group of young men diligently drawing or painting from a male nude model, whose discarded shoes may be seen before the models» stand.
Only
at the very end of the 19th century, in the relatively liberated and open atmosphere of Repin's studio and circle in Russia, do we find
representations of women art students working uninhibitedly from the nude — the
female model, to be sure — in the company of men.
The black and white tone of White's Manifest show is echoed in Reclaimed
at the Linda Pace Foundation, an all -
female exhibition focused on «
representations of the feminine,» according to the press announcement.
Her art practice has found its public through
representation by the Julie Saul Gallery in New York and many dozens of exhibitions over the years
at Bard College, Exit Art and Mary Boone Gallery (where she was the first
female artist to have a solo show), as well as in recent years
at P!
In the fifth floor gallery, curator Saul Ostrow presents Here's Looking Back
at You: Images of Woman from the ESKFF Collection, a selection of works from the Eileen S. Kaminsky Family Foundation (ESKFF) that examine the boundaries of understanding
female representation in art.
«From her first watercolors of the thirties, Rama invents her own visual grammar that contrasts with
representations of sexuality in modernism:
at the same time mutilated and threatening, violated and irreducibly desirable, the
female body is presented as active and vital.
52 - week self - promotional digital drawing experiment that saw the artist turn an inward gaze
at how
female representation.
In 2015, Carla Gannis began her Selfie Drawings series as a so - called 52 - week self - promotional digital drawing experiment that saw the artist turn an inward gaze
at how
female representation.
«On view [
at Venus Los Angeles] is an expansive selection of work in diverse media by Marilyn Minter, Carolee Schneemann, Dorothy Iannone, Judith Bernstein, Valie Export, and Betty Tompkins, six artists who unapologetically create
representations of
female sexuality.
At a time when increasing attention is being paid to
female artists, the David Zwirner gallery has taken on
representation of the abstract painter Joan Mitchell, who died in 1992.
In the year and a half since finishing her MFA
at Yale, 26 - year - old Self has garnered a wide audience for her dynamic
representations of the black
female body.
Is it a playful allusion to the impermanence of Classical materials and the oft - idealized historical
representations of the
female body, or is it a bizarre new sales approach
at the vase store?
While giving Jonas the U.S. pavilion for 2015 is a corrective to her lack of institutional presence in the States, it's equally auspicious for the country's continuing
representation of
female artists
at the Biennale.
This exhibition traces a narrative of Schor's work since the early 90s to the present, from Semi-colon in a Flesh Comma (1994) which punctuates the text of the
female body, and Undue — a section of War Frieze, her major 1991-1994 200 - running feet long multiple canvas work on militarism and aggression, painted in the aftermath of the first Gulf War but still as timely today — through
representations of the nature of artmaking itself — the sign, the trace — to the empty thought balloon when grief has left the artist
at a loss for words, to her most recent works schematically figuring the artist as thinker, reader, writer in an uncertain world.
The exhibition will look
at how performance is employed as a medium for addressing issues of identity and self -
representation by
female artists from Pakistan.
(Em) Power Dynamics: Exploring the Modes of
Female Empowerment and
Representation in America — an all - woman show — is on view
at The Gateway Project Space in New Jersey.