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.
Not exact matches
Meanwhile, only 28 percent of Facebook's
leadership team is
female, the same percentage as at Twitter.
Old Navy, which has a
leadership team that is 65 %
female, says the flower installations are meant to honor the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of these and all women around the world.
At Brand Union, for example, we have reset our management
teams in Paris and New York under
female leadership.
Xerox has long assigned numbers to its employment objectives, which is perhaps why the company is setting its sights even higher: It is aiming for 34 % of the executive
leadership team to be
female within the next five years (up from 28 % currently), according to Damika Arnold, global diversity and inclusion leader at Xerox.
Editor's Note: The original article incorrectly stated Xerox is aiming for 34 % of its executive
leadership team to be
female by next year.
And venture is not alone; only 5 percent of the S&P 500 index has a
female CEO; 3 percent of U.S. senior
leadership teams are racially diverse; 8 percent of law firm equity partners are individuals of color; and 18 percent of the largest nonprofits ($ 50 million + budgets) are run by women, despite an overwhelmingly (75 percent)
female employee base.
She previously co-founded two woman - owned businesses and through her new company Real Wealth Real Health she works with founders, executives and management
teams to integrate
female leadership skills that build inclusive, dynamic and high performing company cultures.
Specifically, the fact that 30 % of the company's workforce is
female, while only 22 % of its management
team and 18 % of its technical
team are
female, suggests that the Company has struggled to attract and retain qualified
female employees and promote them into
leadership roles.
It is being backed by Target (whose
leadership team is 45 %
female) and the Omidyar Network, marking the latter's first women's initiative.
He uses the narrative device of a fictitious church
leadership team to illustrate his points in an engaging manner and offers us a professional book, for male and
female leaders, written at a trade level.
She relates her own personal experience encountering gender - based discrimination within the field:
leadership positions are largely held by men;
female designers having to use email addresses with male names and bringing male colleagues to business meetings because they find the reception more favourable; professional women being perceived as the assistant or as the «lesser talent» in male -
female teams.
The
team is also 60 %
female and its
leadership is 42 %
female.
Hussein's
leadership team is 70 %
female, as are 68 % of the region's managing directors for the legal
team.
She says one of the
team's assets is diversity, with 63 % of the total legal workforce women, as well as a
female majority in the
leadership team, which has seven different nationalities represented.
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