Sentences with phrase «female board member]»

Patricia Mulroy, the former general manager of the Southern Nevada Water Authority, is Wynn's sole female board member.

Karpiel, a native of Poland who immigrated to the United States in 2001, gives 10 percent of her income to Freedom Fields and serves on the 13 - member, all - female board.

For instance, companies whose top management is at least half female post returns on equity that are 19 % higher than average, and firms with the most female board members outperform those with the fewest by almost every financial measure.

This has had some impact, from October 2011 to April 2014 the percentage of female board members in Spain increased from 11 % to 16 %.

He's proactively going off [to find the right female board member].

In fact, Attorney Beth Klein is the only female Board Certified Trial Lawyer in Colorado.

In addition, Attorney Beth Klein is the only female Board Certified Trial Lawyer in Colorado.

This recommendation may extend to other nominating committee members depending on considerations such as the size of the company, industry, governance profile of the company, and / or whether the board has provided a sufficient rationale for failing to have any female board members or adopting a formal policy.

However, Glass Lewis recognizes that it may, upon review of an issuer's disclosure of its diversity considerations, refrain from recommending a withhold vote in the case of a venture issuer or where it is satisfied with the issuer's rationale for why there are no female board members.

16) Do firms with female board members do worse than companies with only male board members?

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.

Throughout much of the Academy's 90 - year history, female board members were a rarity.

A dispiriting glimpse of animal abuse at a New York City shelter in 1966 prompted Wyler's interest in animal rights activism; she subsequently became the first female board member of the ASPCA and formed The Ark Trust.

The data seem to show that gender - based quotas work: Sweden, Norway, and Finland, where the share of female board members was 49 %, 46 %, and 45 %, respectively, have such policies.

Laura Jens - Smith, Riverhead's first female supervisor presiding over the town's first majority - female board, now bears responsibility for the development of 2,900 - acre Enterprise Park at Calverton and the recovery of downtown Riverhead.

With the addition of the region's only female board certified reproductive endocrinologist, Carrie Bedient MD in 2015, we have consistently maintained our longstanding commitment to achieving the best possible outcomes for our patients.

As Southern Nevada's only female board certified reproductive endocrinologist, Dr. Carrie Bedient feels privileged to help men and women reach their full family - building potential.

We are Southern Nevada's first infertility center founded by world renowned fertility specialist Dr. Bruce Shapiro and home to Nevada's only female board certified fertility specialist, Dr. Carrie Bedient.

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

He's proactively going off [to find the right female board member].

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.

Companies with at least one female board member had a return on equity of 14.1 percent over the past nine years, greater than the 11.2 percent for those without any women.

National organization with a mission to grow the proportion of female board members at public companies from 19 % to 30 %.

Cassidy is trying to address that gap by providing vetted female board candidates through TheBoardlist.

Barclays» Women in Leadership Total Return Index, which consists of American companies with a female CEO or whose proportion of female board members is at least 25 percent, is one of number of new funds that aims to capitalize on the finding that companies with female leaders tend to outperform those where women are relatively absent.

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

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.

At Marks & Spencer, female board representation has risen to 41.7 %, from 27.3 % four years ago.

Gender equality report by Mervyn Davies will set new target for FTSE 100 firms of 33 % female board members by 2020

The former trade minister and chairman of Standard Chartered bank has set a new target of 33 % female board members by 2020 and widened the scope to all FTSE 350 firms.

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.

However, when you add up all those female board members, they account for only 22 percent of the total board positions.

The next most influential variable was the proportion of female board members.

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.

Specifically, the provincial government proposed forcing companies to either set up diversity policies that include specific goals for hiring female board members, or explain why they refuse to do so.

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

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).

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.

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.

«The Wynn Resorts board now comprises 36 % women, bringing Wynn into the top 40 S&P 500 companies in terms of female board representation,» the company said.

Fourteen females have been inducted into the WA Women's Hall of Fame today as part of International Women's Day, while a new report out reveals a spike in female board appointments to start the year.

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 Borno State Government has closed female boarding schools in 25 local government areas of the state to forestall abduction of schoolgirls by the Boko Haram insurgents.

Speaking to journalists on the modalities put in place to prevent further abduction of students from schools, the Borno State Commissioner of Education, Inuwa Kubo, said all female boarding schools except those in Maiduguri and Biu, had been closed.

As the civil war rages, an injured Union soldier arrives at an all - female boarding school causing sexual tension, rivalry and ultimately violence.

Not exact matches

British bank Barclays recently started issuing exchange - traded notes on the NYSE Arca exchange (similar to ETFs, only they are derivatives guaranteed by the bank rather than invested in the underlying securities) that track a Women in Leadership index of U.S. companies whose CEOs are women or whose boards are at least one - quarter female.

Athena cultivates a network of female operators who are interested in joining company boards.

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.

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

How does Canada compare to the rest of the world when it comes to female representation on corporate boards?