Sentences with phrase «female board executives»

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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

In fact, researchers at the Peterson Institute for International Economics found that organizations with even a single female board member or executive member showed 15 percent more productivity than their all male competitors.

Nielsen from UniCredit also noted that there's already another German in the executive board of the ECB, Sabine Lautenschläger, and she would have to resign if Weidmann were to be appointed, reducing female representation in the top jobs — an issue that has often been raised about the ECB.

With the addition of Barra, Disney's board now features two of the highest - profile female executives in the country, since she'll serve alongside Facebook Inc..

Progress has been slow when it comes to getting more women into executive roles (the number of female board members is climbing but just 13 percent of these female board members are employed as executives).

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.

Instead of quotas, chief executives preferred softer measures to increase female participation on boards.

So what relationship did the study find behind a fledgling firm having a female founder, board member, or C - level executive and the business coming to a happy ending?

As head of New York — based Catalyst, a global research and advisory organization, she wants to boost the number of female executives in C - suites and on corporate boards.

The letter urges five overall guiding principles and 10 best practices in order to get more women into the field generally and leadership positions, including: getting executives and boards to make gender diversity a priority; establishing mentorship programs that connect women with life sciences executives; and doing a better job tracking where female talent goes within biopharma firms, among other suggestions.

Companies perform better when they have at least one female executive on the board, a study of companies in the UK, US and India shows.

Of the 990 companies in the three markets studied by Grant Thornton that had female board members, 127, or 13 %, were employed as executives.

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.

In case you weren't already sold on the payoff for companies that prioritize the hiring and promotion of women, a new report shows just how much large, listed companies are losing by not employing female executives on their boards.

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.

«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.

Furthermore, he recommended quoted companies to be required to disclose every year the proportion of women on the board, in senior executive positions and female employees in the whole organisation.

Name: Kelly Blackett Title: Executive Vice President, Human Resources and Corporate Communications Areas of responsibility: Human resources, learning and development, corporate communications Years with CWB Financial Group: 3 Career history: 17 years with General Electric in Canada holding a series of progressively responsible human resources leadership roles at GE Capital and GE Corporate, supporting businesses within Canada as well as globally Education: Bachelor of Commerce with Distinction from the University of Alberta Community involvement: Sits on the Board of Trustees for the Stollery Children's Hospital Foundation, member of the MacEwan Business School Advisory Board, and past mentor with MORE, a program providing cross-business mentorship to female leaders in Edmonton's business community

Aspect Ventures plans to be gender - blind in its investments and hiring, but the two cite numerous statistics on how companies with female executives and board members tend to perform better.

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.

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.»

Out of the total 106 aspirants in the Greater Accra region, 12 are females, including Oboubia Darko, the Deputy Chief Executive Officer of the Free Zones Board and a daughter of former President Ezenator Rawlings who is giving Nii Armah Ashitey the incumbent of Member of Parliament for the Klottey Korle constituency a keen competition, among otthers.

Each AD Part has two District Leaders (one male, one female) who represent you to the County Party Executive Board.

GARA's seriousness about the development of female Rugby in Greater Accra is clearly demonstrated by the appointment of two ladies to the GARA Board by way of Gifty Kukua Aggrey (General Secretary) and Rafatu Inusah (Executive Member).

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Some of the data points they cited about the UK's publishing scene at the time: four women were on HarperCollins UK's executive board; five core divisions at Penguin Random House UK were run by women; six female division heads were in place at Hachette UK; and 80 percent of Pan MacMillan's staff were female.

Targets voluntarily adopted regarding female representation on the board or in executive positions and, if none, an explanation for their absence.

She was also a founding member of the Tuesday Girls whose mission was to provide networking opportunities for women executives and business owners; was a partner in Accelerent, a national platform for mid-sized corporate businesses in the Mid-Atlantic; served as a corporate mentor for the COMMIT Foundation, whose mission is to mentor mid-level female veterans to reach their full potential personally and professionally; and served for nine years on the board of the Girl Scouts of Central Maryland with a focus on their capital campaign to expand services for inner - city girls.

Ms. Senft also has served non-profit organizations whose mission she champions including acting in the role of Treasurer and on the executive board of Network 2000 whose mission is to place women on corporate boards and to mentor rising female executives; serving as elected board member for the Coalition of Geriatric Services in Maryland, whose mission is to expand compassionate alternative services to seniors at home and in residential living; and as Vice President of the Roland Park Civic League for six years, whose focus is on civic engagement and the preservation of historic green space in Baltimore City, the monitoring of other land developments and the creation of a 100 year Master Plan for the preservation and modernization of the historic garden community designed by the Olmsted Brothers.