Sentences with phrase «more women directors»

Companies that sustained three or more women directors in at least four of five years appreciably outpaced those with sustained low representation by 84 per cent on ROS, 60 per cent on ROIC, and 46 per cent on ROE.

«I would love to see more women directors because they represent half of the population - and gave birth to the whole world.

«Over the last two years, the Academy have completely remade the directing branch and have added many more women directors from all across the world.

This year's Cannes Film Festival could use more women directors, as there are only three among the official competition lineup of 20.

Acclaimed Wellington - born New Zealand filmmaker Dame Jane Campion once stated that she «would love to see more women directors because they represent half of the population and gave birth to the whole world...

«We need more women directors and more women to be nominated for best director,» she continued.

«We need more women directors and more women to be nominated for Best Director.

But there are more women directors, especially in TV and small films than I've ever seen.

Could have done with a few more women directors, mind

Even though Cannes veteran Hirokazu Kore - eda left with this year's top prize and Spike Lee took home second place (a deserving win but also a good make - up after the director was ignored in 1989 for Do the Right Thing), the strong slate was buoyed by new blood and (a few) more women directors.

Not exact matches

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.

The IRS RMD rules can be a bit confusing, and failing to satisfy your annual RMD can be expensive, costing you an excise - tax penalty of up to 50 percent on the amount not distributed as required, warns Manisha Thakor, director of Wealth Strategies for Women at Buckingham and The BAM Alliance, a community of more than 140 independent registered investment advisors throughout the country.

Only 13 have a board of directors that is more than 80 percent women and senior management that is more than 80 percent women.

«When you just look at single men and single women, we see single women are more likely give than single men,» said Debra Mesch, director of Women's Philanthropy Instiwomen, we see single women are more likely give than single men,» said Debra Mesch, director of Women's Philanthropy Instiwomen are more likely give than single men,» said Debra Mesch, director of Women's Philanthropy InstiWomen's Philanthropy Institute.

This strategy of searching for common ground before a meeting was particularly effective when a new contact was more obviously dissimilar from a director, for example when a young black woman meeting with an older white man spent time considering their career parallels before their get together.

According to PayScale's results at least, «Men tend to go into engineering, computer science, management roles and director roles more so than women, and those jobs see fairly consistent pay increases year in and year out,» Bardaro says.

Davies said more work was needed to get women into top executive jobs and in line to become chairmen and senior independent directors.

While British companies have been appointing more female directors, they have been slower to promote women into the top jobs — the chief executive, chief finance officer and chairmanship roles.

At The Vancouver Board of Trade's 128th AGM, incoming Chair Tim Manning announced an unprecedented decision to elect more women than men to the board of directors — something that has not happened before in the organization's history.

VBOT becomes only major business organization in Canada with more women than men on its board of directors

We look forward to a partnership where UN Women and Uber will drive more access to these types of opportunities around the world,» UN Women Executive Director Phumzile Mlambo - Ngcuka and Uber CEO Travis Kalanick said in a joint statement.

In an interview with USA TODAY following the meeting, Jackson said he stressed the need for Uber to hire more women and underrepresented minorities at all levels of the company, from the board of directors and the executive team to rank - and - file workers.

«From all research we've done in the past several weeks, The Vancouver Board of Trade is the first and only business organization of our kind in Canada — possibly across North America — to have more women on our board of directors than men,» said Manning, who also serves as Regional Vice-President of Commercial Financial Services at RBC Royal Bank.

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.

Uber director Arianna Huffington said data shows that when there's one woman on a board, it's much more likely that there will be a second woman on the board.

Yet Sukhinder Singh Cassidy, who started TheBoardlist in 2015 to highlight women qualified to be directors of tech companies, says she spots glimmers of hope as smaller firms begin to add more female directors.

In fact, we recently conducted a survey that found 90 percent of female customers in the US would go out of their way to purchase products from women, believing they would offer higher quality,» stated MiKaela Wardlaw Lemmon, senior director of Women's Economic Empowerment at Walmart «We hope our collaboration with Women's Business Enterprise National Council and WEConnect International will make customers around the world more aware of great products from women - owned businesses, and help these women continue to grow their businesses.&rwomen, believing they would offer higher quality,» stated MiKaela Wardlaw Lemmon, senior director of Women's Economic Empowerment at Walmart «We hope our collaboration with Women's Business Enterprise National Council and WEConnect International will make customers around the world more aware of great products from women - owned businesses, and help these women continue to grow their businesses.&rWomen's Economic Empowerment at Walmart «We hope our collaboration with Women's Business Enterprise National Council and WEConnect International will make customers around the world more aware of great products from women - owned businesses, and help these women continue to grow their businesses.&rWomen's Business Enterprise National Council and WEConnect International will make customers around the world more aware of great products from women - owned businesses, and help these women continue to grow their businesses.&rwomen - owned businesses, and help these women continue to grow their businesses.&rwomen continue to grow their businesses.»

Companies with more women board directors outperform those with the fewest by 66 percent return on invested capital.

New female independent directors are more likely than their male counterparts to be line and functional leaders; 23 % of women are in line or functional roles, compared with 10 % of male directors.

Co-presented by Scotiabank and KPMG, the WXN awards celebrate and highlight the professional achievements of women across the country in the private, public and not - for - profit sectors at a time when corporate Canada is under growing pressure to promote more female leaders into senior management and corporate director roles.

All of the companies in the Fund have one or more women on their board of directors.

Certainly this is an excellent spot for competent women to serve the church; but of late years more men are holding such positions, and more directors, both men and women, are ordained ministers.

They have youth directors that tell the youth they have to drop out of school activities to do more work for the church, kick an 86 year old woman from the choir because she doesn't sing well enough any more... and the list goes on and on.

«The most vulnerable children and women in hard - to - reach areas are often missed by existing interventions that can improve vitamin A status, including vitamin A supplementation, food fortification, dietary diversification, and promotion of optimal breast - feeding,» said Ms. Nancy Haselow, HKI vice president and regional director for Asia - Pacific, who has been designing, implementing, and testing vitamin A delivery programs for more than 20 years.

• From 1971 to 1985, under three International Olympic Committee presidents, Monique Berlioux, as director, wielded more power over a broader spectrum of sports than any woman ever has.

Leonardi, who is also the Women's National ODP Technical Director, has worked with Klass for a little more than a year now.

«With so much at stake, we need to do more to reach women with a simple, powerful message: Breastfeeding can save your baby's life,» said Anthony Lake, UNICEF Executive Director.

«More hospitals are opening their doors to doulas because they know women want that kind of support,» says Maureen Corry, M.P.H., executive director of the Maternity Center Association in New York City, a nonprofit organization devoted to improving maternity care.

I joined its Board of Directors last October because I feel strongly that more mother - to - mother support is needed to help women meet their breastfeeding goals.

Congratulating Theresa May on becoming Prime Minister, Huw Evans, Director General of the Association of British Insurers (ABI), said: «The appointment of our second woman Prime Minister is a positive day in British public life which will hopefully encourage many more women to stand for election to Parliament.

In particular, WFP Director Bill Lipton singled out the governor's newly formed Women's Equality Party as a «fake party» and knocked Cuomo for not spending more money to help Democrats retake full control of the state Senate.

«Research has shown that when survivors are given proper information and support their case is more likely to end in the criminal conviction of the perpetrator of sexual violence,» Emma Scott, director of Rights of Women said.

To make a point about reigning in special interests, the League of Women Voters» legislative director Barbara Bartoletti likes to point out that legislators are more likely to die or be indicted than to be voted out of office.

«The DLCC's work alongside Florida Democrats has resulted in the election of three Democratic women to this battleground state's upper legislative chamber, and we look forward to gaining more ground in 2018 and 2020 elections ahead of critical redistricting,» said DLCC executive director Jessica Post.

Joining us to talk more about the court's decision and what this means for the fight against corruption is Barbara Bartoletti, the former legislative director for the League of Women Voters.

Susan Anderson, CBI's director of human resources policy, said: «Women are still under - represented in senior positions and more progress must be made, but it is encouraging that an increasing number of women are becoming directors, particularly from the younger age groups.&rWomen are still under - represented in senior positions and more progress must be made, but it is encouraging that an increasing number of women are becoming directors, particularly from the younger age groups.&rwomen are becoming directors, particularly from the younger age groups.»

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«There was a noticeable slip in support from the first night to the second night of the survey, after more damaging news came out and the National Organization for Women called for the Governor to step down,» says Maurice Carroll, director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute.

The 89 - year - old Cutchogue resident, who has volunteered at Eastern Long Island Hospital for more than 15 years, was recently named 2012's «Woman of Distinction» for the 1st Senatorial District in recognition of her efforts as director of the hospital's volunteers.