Sentences with phrase «more women executives»

Fonstad and Gouw argue that companies actually perform better if they have more women executives and board members, citing studies from two independent research houses.

Not exact matches

Accenture has also worked on ways to get more women into senior leadership positions (they've changed the interview process so that candidates of both genders get to know more members in the executive ranks) and to retain them (implementing a one - year no - travel policy for employees who are new mothers and fathers).

While it's not a perfect 50 - 50 split — there are six women and seven men — it's more equal than any other top tech company's executive team.

What's more, one of the women in the Equilar 100, Oracle's (orcl) Safra Catz, tied with her co-CEO, Mark Hurd, for the title of highest paid chief executive, raking in $ 53.2 last year, significantly boosting the women's average.

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).

Last year, women made up more than half of newly appointed HR executives, a role that's typically responsible for ensuring a company can acquire and develop the staff it needs to execute the larger business plan.

Businesses with a woman on the executive team are more likely to have significantly higher valuations in their last funding round — 49 percent higher.

But, as Laroux points out, «we could wait for more women to rise to the executive suites, but for me and so many others in this room, «wait and see» is not an option.»

«As one part of a global effort to make the Web more responsive to women's safety, security, and enjoyment, I can't help but stand up and applaud,» Anita Sarkeesian, executive editor of Feminist Frequency says.

«I've invested in 20 different entrepreneurial and mid-cap companies and I've made more money with the women executives.

The executives did feel that having more qualified women on boards would have a positive effect on corporations.

Though only 1.3 % of all privately held companies have a female founder, 6.5 % have a female CEO, and 20 % have one or more female C - level executives, these high - ranking women of the start - up world weren't evenly distributed, according to the report:

CFINE chief executive Dave Simmers said: «Over a woman's lifetime, sanitary products cost on average more than # 5,000, a significant sum for those on low - income.

According to this research, a profitable company in which 30 percent of the top executives are women would expect to be about 15 percent more profitable than one in which the C suite is all male.

Even as the world seems to be getting more casual, a dark suit is still a wardrobe cornerstone for women at the executive level.

In the Bentley University survey, 37 percent of the men responding to the survey agreed that male managers and executives can play a more active role in mentoring and developing women to better succeed in the business world.

«More women,» one member of the six - person entourage of Pepsi executives and employees accompanying the CEO and chairman of PepsiCo (PEP) offers sheepishly.

The pay gap isn't just between men and women: Overall, top executives in the U.S. earn roughly 300 times more than the average worker, according to The New York Times.

These employees, who call themselves State Street's «Leading Women,» are committed to grooming more executives like them.

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.

A short video from one female executive won't change that, but hopefully a lot more women in positions of power and a growing awareness that burning the midnight oil takes a serious toll on families, relationships and even individuals (not to mention a more equitable sharing of housework and childcare between the sexes) will slowly make it safe for more of us to say to our bosses — or admit to ourselves — what Sandberg has just said publicly.

Unlike a similar study last year that found that women chiefs make more than men, this one had a far larger sample and controlled for «chief executives» tenure, characteristics of the firms (size, performance and risk), and the size and independence of the boards.»

At least 100 biopharma executives from major drug makers like Eli Lilly (lly), Johnson & Johnson (jnj), Bayer, Novartis (nvs), and a slew of biotech CEOs have signed an open letter advocating strategies to get more women involved in the life sciences.

Due to her reputation as a passionate woman executive in technology, Debbie is a sought after speaker and writer, having appeared in Harvard Business Review, Forbes, CNBC, Huffington Post, FoxTV and more.

WOMEN in executive management roles earning more than $ 65,000 a year find work 25 per cent faster than their male counterparts on similar salaries according to a recent Morgan & Banks survey.

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

Benjamin Brafman, a lawyer for Mr. Weinstein, said in a statement, «While Mr. Weinstein's behavior was not without fault, there certainly was no criminality, and at the end of the inquiry it will be clear that Harvey Weinstein promoted more women to key executive positions than any other industry leader.»

«There are now more women on FTSE boards than ever before but we need to go further, particularly when it comes to paving the way to the executive level.

Businesses with a woman on the executive team are more likely to have higher valuations at both first and last funding (64 percent higher and 49 percent higher, respectively).

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.

Dow Jones studied more than 20,000 venture - backed companies over a five - year period and found that those companies with at least one woman executive were more likely to succeed than those with only men in leadership positions.

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.

Getting more women in executive and board positions will do more to bring other women into leadership roles than almost anything else.

She is also the executive sponsor for Women at IO, a group designed to equip women to be more successful, personally and professionally, and encourage a culture that embraces the value women can bring to the business and commuWomen at IO, a group designed to equip women to be more successful, personally and professionally, and encourage a culture that embraces the value women can bring to the business and commuwomen to be more successful, personally and professionally, and encourage a culture that embraces the value women can bring to the business and commuwomen can bring to the business and community.

Firms could do more to include women among their leadership, Krawcheck said, and she questioned an idea outlined in the bestselling book by Facebook executive Sheryl Sandberg, «Lean In,» which suggested women push harder to get ahead.

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.

More women in boardrooms and executive offices are proven to complement operations, yet corporate Canada just can't seem to bring itself to promote talented women anywhere near the rate at which Mr. Trudeau has done.

Venture capital firms with women decision makers are more than twice as likely to invest in companies with a woman on the executive team.

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After observing men receive coveted promotions over more experienced women, several highly - placed executives left for other companies.

They initially targeted urban millennial women, but the audience has grown to include a broader demographic (20 percent of Skimm readers are male), no doubt a reason why, when they closed their Series A funding at the end of last year, they raised more than $ 6.25 million from investors like RRE, Greycroft Partners, and Homebrew, as well as big names like Irving Azoff, the former chief executive of Ticketmaster, and even Chelsea Handler.

He joins a growing list of male investors and tech executives who recently lost their jobs or faced public shaming over sexual harassment scandals as more women come forward to report incidents — a trend experts say is reshaping how Silicon Valley deals with allegations of inappropriate behavior.

2014.09.29 RBC and CanWIT join forces to develop women leaders in IT Jennifer Stott is an information technology (IT) executive at RBC - and she wants more women to join her...

Jennifer Stott is an information technology (IT) executive at RBC - and she wants more women to join her...

(One of those studies, done in 2012 by Dow Jones, shows that companies where women are founders or executives are more likely to go public or become profitable or be sold for a higher price).

«I knew the financial outperformance of companies with more women in leadership, being the executive sponsor of the global women's forum at my Fortune 500 tech company,» Brand told Crunchbase News in an email.

3 Principles for Hiring a More Diverse Team How a little fintech company achieved gender parity (66 % women in our executive team; 53 % women in our company), established 100 % paid leave policies for mothers and fathers, and is working even harder toward better diversity.

Or maybe you are the first woman executive in a corporation where the existing idea of management is more a matter of headship than leadership.

The classic study in the 1980s by Robert and Linda Lichter and Stanley Rothman of the media elite (major reporters and executives at ABC, CBS, and NBC news, Time and Newsweek, and the New York Times and Washington Post) confirmed what everyone who pays attention to such things had already known: the men and women who give us the news are, as a group, politically more liberal, morally more permissive, and religiously more indifferent than the general public.

A close parallel is observable between a comment by an early protagonist of the theory, Dorwin Cartwright, who in 1949 suggested that, «it is conceivable that one persuasive person could, through the use of mass media, bend the world's population to his will,» (3) and the 1979 affirmation by NRB Executive Secretary Ben Armstrong, «I believe that God has raised up this powerful technology of radio and television expressly to reach every man, woman, boy, and girl on earth with the even more powerful message of the gospel.»