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A federal initiative to cultivate the next generation of women directors is floundering because leaders won't step up

Software companies had one of the highest percentages of women directors and the lowest of top - paid executives, said study author Amanda Kimball.

Discerning moviegoers attracted by the sheer novelty of a woman director at the helm of such a big movie and willing to give Clooney the benefit of the doubt will ultimately be satisfied by the final product, but it remains to be seen if an average multiplex crowd can be wowed by a movie that sacrifices cheap thrills in favor of global relevance.

This week, there's a substantial list of watch - worthy openers that illuminate women's stories and / or are the work of women directors and writers: Marguerite, Lolo, Hello, My Name is Doris, Eye in The Sky, River of Grass, About Scout, 10 Cloverfield Lane, City of Gold, Here Come the Videofreex!

On November 25, 2014, I came from Winnipeg, Manitoba to Vancouver, British Columbia to join a group of eight carefully - selected female filmmakers from across Canada to participate in the nineteenth annual Women In the Director's Chair program, an internationally respected Canadian professional development offering, specially designed to advance the skills, careers and screen projects of women directors.

Our goal is to recognize and honor the outstanding work of women directors of narrative features, documentaries and shorts.

Commenting on the dearth of women directors and lead characters in films released during the summer of 2008, New York Times critic Manohla Dargis opined, «Welcome to the new, post-female American cinema» («Is There a Real Woman in this Multiplex?»

But it looks like many of those women directors simply aren't getting opportunities to make meaningful mainstream movies, even after scoring significant critical and box - office success.

«For the first few years, (Dr. Lauzen) was really looking at Hollywood and giving the statistics about the numbers of women directors and Hollywood,» she says.

The fact that there is such a strong group of women directors working now in the UK — from Amma Asante through to Joanna Hogg — can only have a positive impact on young women when they are thinking about creative career options.

However, this year we had a number of women directors produce high - profile, critical darlings — and still no nominations.

And for me I was wanting to comment on this space of work, where there seemed to be this really large body of certain filmmaking that was coming out of comedy and there's not a ton of women directors in comedies or at all.

«Big Little Lies» Season 2 has been confirmed with Andrea Arnold; Disney boasts new $ 100 million club of women directors; and the motion picture academy establishes code of conduct in Harvey Weinstein fallout.

Long criticized for the lack of women directors represented, this year Cannes will see the Coppola and Ramsay films, as well as Naomi Kawase's Radiance premiering in competition, a short film directed by Kristen Stewart, the Campion series, and seven films directed by women in the independent - minded Directors» Fortnight section.

New World Discoveries The Year of the Women Directors?

A full 30 percent of the offerings were lady - directed, and one of the intimate conversations in the Salamander Library was devoted to 2017 as being «The Year of Women Directors.»

Debate still rages over the scarcity of women directors, but many at the festival have been encouraged by the wealth of competition films featuring female leads — not all of them preoccupied with their love lives

Being that the subject was the lack of women directors at Cannes, it was especially disheartening to sit through Loin de Mon Pere (That Lovely Girl) as part of the Un Certain Regard.

Film 12 - Jacky in the Kingdom of Women Director - Riad Sattouf Starring - Vincent Lacoste, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Didier Bourdon, Michel Hazanavicius

Jill Soloway is seen in this photo from the new documentary «Half the Picture «about the scarcity of women directors in Hollywood.

Her choice for the FilmKlub is the collaborative, cinema - direct documentary Jeppe on a Friday (Canada, South Africa 2012) shot by a team of women directors around Arya Lalloo and Shannon Walsh.

Rights of Women director Estelle du Boulay said: «This is a victory for women and also for common sense.

Rights of Women director Estelle du Boulay called it «a victory for women and also for common sense».

Securities regulators in Manitoba, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Northwest Territories, Nova Scotia, Nunavut, Ontario, Quebec, and Saskatchewan did adopt the rules requiring companies to disclose, on an annual basis, information on policies relating to the identification and nomination of women directors, targets for women on boards and in executive officer positions as well as the number and percentage of women on the issuer's board of directors and in executive officer positions.

Not exact matches

But they're actually super, super safe,» Dr. Maria Sophocles, medical director of Women's Healthcare of Princeton, told INSIDER.

As part of its shakeup this summer, American Apparel (AMEX: APP) appointed two women to its previously all - male board of directors.

Wednesday, June 19 — The benefits of having a business mentor The Hangout features: Carol Lopucki, Michigan Small Business Technology & Development Center, Director Michael Chodos, SBA Associate Administrator for Entrepreneurial Development Amanda Schultz, Montana Women's Business Center, Director Invited: AARP Moderator: Fran Tarkenton, NFL Legend, Entrepreneur, and host of «The Fran Tarkenton Show» on Sirius XM

Theresia Gouw, once a partner with Accel Partners, and Fonstad, formerly managing director at Draper Fisher Jurvetson, founded Aspect Ventures; Aileen Lee left Kleiner Perkins to launch seed fund Cowboy Ventures; Gilt Groupe's former CEO Susan Lyne hatched AOL's BBG (Built by Girls) Ventures; serial entrepreneur Anu Duggal launched the Female Founders Fund with the express purpose of investing in women.

Ellis and partner Nikolay Djibankov use a strategy called Gender Lens Investment, which targets companies with at least three women on their boards of directors, in the creation of a so - called «parity portfolio» for clients.

Instead, we're very focused on the sacrifices,» Jennifer Allyn, managing director in the office of diversity for PricewaterhouseCoopers has said, chiding high - achieving women in particular to stop beating themselves up and start counting their blessings.

Milena Head, academic director of DeGroote's EMBA program, says clichés might still steer women away.

The show follows in the footsteps of Ava DuVernay's OWN series «Queen Sugar,» which also exclusively put women in the director's chair.

After working as a director and senior merchant at Victoria's Secret, Michelle Cordeiro Grant wanted to create a new experience and point of view in the lingerie category, one that delivers simple, quality products and reflects the healthy, confident, and beautiful women wearing them.

«This is an extremely generous benefit, and while it's fantastic for the women who work there, I don't know how feasible it is going to be for the majority of industries to do something to this extent,» said Alina Salganicoff, vice-president and director of women's health policy for Kaiser Family Foundation, a non-profit that researches health care issues.

Harford is a prominent diversity champion, both in the financial services sector and the wider business community, and served as the co-head of Citi Women and on the board of directors of The Forte Foundation, a U.S. nonprofit organization dedicated to increasing the number of women leaders in busiWomen and on the board of directors of The Forte Foundation, a U.S. nonprofit organization dedicated to increasing the number of women leaders in busiwomen leaders in business.

To see a woman step up and take the place of a man thats been accused and is resigning because of his own history with sexual harassment,» said Jean Sinzdak, associate director at the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University.

«A lot of investors say they don't know where to find minority and women entrepreneurs,» says Nasir Qadree, Village Capital's director of education.

At the end of 2016, 738 companies — roughly 25 percent of the list — had no women on their boards of directors.

Within about four years of cycling through departments, she became creative director of Rocawear's women's and children's divisions.

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.

Recently, Equilar, a research firm that focuses on board recruitment, put together a Gender Diversity Index and predicts that the board of directors on the Russell 3000 list — the 3000 largest companies based in the United States — will achieve parity, with a membership made up of 50 percent women and 50 percent men, by the fourth quarter of 2055.

«This has enormous promise in changing the way we do mental health care as well as medical care,» says David Ahern, director of behavioral informatics and e-health at Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital.

Comparing full - time, year - round workers, women earn 77 cents for every dollar men earn, said Dana Britton, director of the Center for Women and Work at Rutgers University in Newark, women earn 77 cents for every dollar men earn, said Dana Britton, director of the Center for Women and Work at Rutgers University in Newark, Women and Work at Rutgers University in Newark, N.J..

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).

Yet somehow, in the U.S., large public companies can't seem to seem to make any progress at all in getting more women onto their boards of directors.

We even know that, if there is even one woman on a company's board of directors, attendance is better at board meetings.

Income tax is likely the last thing on your mind as the holiday season kicks in, but now is perhaps the best time to start strategizing for your 2015 return, said Manisha Thakor, CFA, director of Wealth Strategies for Women at Buckingham and The BAM Alliance.

Dr. Leah Millheiser, a clinical assistant professor at Stanford University School of Medicine and director of the Female Sexual Medicine program, told INSIDER that she would recommend the copper IUD for any woman who is concerned about her mental health.

In this edition of the CB Elevator Pitch, editor James Cowan argues that companies need to work harder to recruit women for boards of directors.

At the end of February, Lazard announced that it had named 10 new managing directors worldwide — none of whom were women.