Sentences with phrase «female board directors»

The ETF tracks the MSCI Canada IMI Women's Leadership Select Index, which includes firms with at least three female board directors, or with boards that are at least 30 % female.

A coalition of Christian investors with assets of over # 17bn has demanded businesses to appoint more female board directors.

He'd studied the growing pile of research highlighting how female board directors boost corporate performance.

Snap Inc., owner of social chatting system Snapchat, was under fire in February for paying its sole female board director far less than her male counterparts.

Not exact matches

MOVERS AND SHAKERS: Saudi Arabia's state - oil giant Aramco has added its first female director to its board: Lynn Laverty Elsenhans, the former chairwoman, president and CEO of U.S. oil refiner Sunoco.

Their business stood out because, despite accepting both male and female clientele, the Westropp sisters wanted to have an all - female board of directors and teach women about money during a time when men still controlled much of family and business finance.

Taken to its logical extreme, his research seems to argue that boards should have only female directors, but he's careful to point out that not all women score highly on complex moral reason (sometimes known as «CMR») decision - making, and some men do.

The researchers noted that even a 10 % increase in female directors on a board is linked to an increase in the likelihood of engaging a top - ranked advisor.

State Street said Thursday that since the placement of the statue, more than 150 companies have added a female director to their boards.

According to a letter to the board of directors, Contreras - Sweet said she hopes to be executive chairwoman of a majority - female board heading Weinstein Co., which would be renamed.

The list of potential directors, chosen by a committee expected to be made up of sitting directors and search - firm consultants, will eventually be available online to assist boards looking for female directors.

Another prong in No Ceilings» new program is an effort by the nonprofit Catalyst to create what's being billed as an annual list of CEO - endorsed female candidates who are ready to serve as directors on U.S. corporate boards.

Ever since the Ontario Securities Commission implemented a rule last year that TSX - listed companies must address gender diversity on their boards or explain why they haven't, corporate Canada has been scrambling to hire female directors.

According to a study of boards of directors from the research group Catalyst, companies that had a higher - than - usual number of female board members serving for at least four or five years vastly outperformed companies with primarily male board members.

And Chipotle's only female director (and a veteran of the board since 1995), Darlene Friedman, saw a protest vote of almost 10 %.

In front of employees, the board member Arianna Huffington talked about how having one female director typically leads to more female directors.

By comparing the rates at which each country's diverse boards outperformed male boards with the country's GDP, the firm estimated what it called the «opportunity cost,» or the increase in business profits the country might have earned if all businesses had at least one female executive directors.

One Danish female director talked about this: «There is very much the attitude in Denmark now, which is «haven't we talked about this issue of women on boards enough now?

Uber's board of directors would like to recruit its own Sheryl Sandberg, a prominent female executive to help steer Uber, according to published reports.

It's an important point and one that exposes a limitation of the Boardlist's approach: No matter how many female directors they help place, Silicon Valley boards won't get anywhere near gender parity until more women create and invest in startups.

While Shih is one of three female Starbucks directors, she's the only woman on her own four - person startup board.

Some blame the scarcity of female directors at tech companies on a lack of board experience.

In contrast, we do not observe any significant association between the presence of female directors on bidder boards and their engagement of top - ranked financial advisors.

Consistent with the evidence from other contexts, we show that the presence of female directors on target boards is positively and significantly associated with target boards seeking advice from top - ranked financial advisors.

«Greater participation of women in boardrooms is necessary and the way to do this is to increase the number of senior female executives from which board members can be drawn,» said Carrie Hartnell, associate director of Intellect's Women in IT Forum.

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.

Julie Hembrock Daum, who leads the North American Board Practice, highlights key findings from the 2017 Spencer Stuart U.S. Board Index, including increases in the number of first - time and female directors and changes in director skills and backgrounds.

Civilian Complaint Review Board Chairman Richard Emery is being sued by the CCRB's executive director, Mina Malik, who claims she has been retaliated against after complaining that he referred to her and another female attorney as «pu --- s.»

The Ghana Muslim Broadcast Journalist Association and the Northerners and Zongo Concern Youth Association Ghana have awarded Hajiya Mariam Mohammed Sissy the Deputy Communications Director of the Hajj Board and a Broadcast Journalist as the best female Muslim Journalist on Radio and Television.

She is the legal director of the New York State Young Democrats and the youngest board member of the Women's Campaign Fund, a nonprofit that assists females who are running for office.

Buffalo, NY — The Erie County Industrial Development Agency Board of Directors Wednesday elected the agency's first female Chair, unanimously choosing Buffalo Urban League President and CEO Brenda McDuffie for the one - year term.

And although Zuber is not the first women to chair the board, NSF's press release touts her as part of the first all - female leadership team at the agency, joining NSF Director France Córdova and the board's new vice-chair, Diane Souvaine, a theoretical computer scientist and vice provost for research at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts.

Female entrepreneur; Gender representation on corporate boards of directors; Economic development; Explorers and travelers

Female entrepreneur; Gender representation on corporate boards of directors; Economic development; Explorers and travelers Tallahassee, Florida (CNN) In Florida's halls of power, Sherry Johnson is somewhat of an anomaly: a black woman who grew up destitute and

It's completely understandable why Weisz was interested in developing this material — looking for a story with two strong female leads, she optioned Naomi Alderman's controversial novel and brought producer Frida Torresblanco and red - hot Chilean director Sebastian Lelio (Gloria, A Fantastic Woman) on board.

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The central character is Kathryn Graham (the «extremely overrated» Meryl Streep), the owner of the Washington Post, and the sole female at the table of white males on the paper's board of directors.

Last summer, emotions got so heated at city Board of Directors meetings that male directors felt obliged to escort the female director to her car after meetings, Police Chief Kevin Lindsey increased armed security at gatherings and a scuffle between a citizen and the mayor ended up with the mayor on thDirectors meetings that male directors felt obliged to escort the female director to her car after meetings, Police Chief Kevin Lindsey increased armed security at gatherings and a scuffle between a citizen and the mayor ended up with the mayor on thdirectors felt obliged to escort the female director to her car after meetings, Police Chief Kevin Lindsey increased armed security at gatherings and a scuffle between a citizen and the mayor ended up with the mayor on the ground.

Under the guidance of an all female - based board of directors, Mrs. White also formed a women's branch of the Pennsylvania SPCA.

Pet Age's «Women of Influence» list honoring the top 25 most influential women in the responsible pet industry has been officially released — including Laura «Peach» Ried, the first female Chair of PIJAC's (the Pet Industry Joint Advisory Council) Board of Directors.

Laura «Peach» Reid is the CEO of Fish Mart and the first female chair of the board of directors for the Pet Industry Joint Advisory Council.

Burr calls the hinged boards Chicks — ambiguously female and the person of Chick Austin, a man and a former director of the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford.

Member of the Board of Directors of LORI.biz Project, a Montreal - based organization that seeks to promote female entrepreneurship.

Utilities and retail sectors had the most women on their boards with 57 per cent and 43 per cent of issuers respectively, having two or more female directors.

Right on the heels of the Ms. JD inaugural conference last week comes this New York Times article, Female Lawyers Set Sights on Yet One More Goal: A Seat on a Board (4/6/07), which reports on a new program, DirectWomen Institute, designed to train female lawyers to become directors of public compFemale Lawyers Set Sights on Yet One More Goal: A Seat on a Board (4/6/07), which reports on a new program, DirectWomen Institute, designed to train female lawyers to become directors of public compfemale lawyers to become directors of public companies.

An issuer's policies on the representation of women on the board (including for identifying and nominating female directors), or an explanation for their absence.

A 2010 research paper from the Electronic Journal of Business Ethics and Organization Studies found that there is clearly an association between the number of female directors on a corporate board and the incidence of corporate social behaviour.

Beginning in 2019, the ISS will generally recommend withholding a vote for the nominating committee chair of the board of a TSX - listed issuer where (i) the issuer has not disclosed a formal written board gender diversity policy and (ii) there are no female directors on the board.

Glass Lewis, on the other hand, will, beginning in 2019, generally recommend withholding a vote for the nominating committee chair of the board of an issuer (including venture issuers) where (i) the issuer has not disclosed a formal written gender diversity policy or (ii) there are no female directors on the board.

Nominations for the Regional Chief, the Board of Directors and the Female Youth Representative must be received by the Electoral Officer no later than midnight September 11th, 2017, and must be accompanied by: