Sentences with phrase «of women representation»

«One way we have tried to impart on the lives of women is by championing the representation of women, especially the 35 per cent affirmation action in respect of women representation in governance.

Not exact matches

But discrimination isn't the obvious reason why there are fewer women than men in Silicon Valley, so solving discrimination won't necessarily take us to the goal of a 50 - 50 representation.

Intel said it would become the first high technology company to achieve «full representation» of women and underrepresented minorities by 2020.

Women's under - representation on boards and in top management positions has long been the subject of academic study and, more recently, public policy.

The numbers have nudged up from 15.9 % in 2013, when Catalyst Canada surveyed the number of women on Financial Post 500 boards, and new comply - or - explain regulations initiated by the Ontario Securities Commission will likely push the statistics higher now that companies are required to disclose female representation on boards and in senior management.

«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.

On a macro level, women haven't had a very impressive history of board representation.

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).

A recent survey by theBoardlist, a group that seeks out women qualified for board seats and helps connect them to search committees, asked why the representation of women on boards was so low.

A group of women explain to CNBC how they're addressing the lack of female representation on Wall Street — by making a movie about it.

The under - representation of women at this year's World Economic Forum in Davos has been one of the more obvious elephants in the room.

«To get the full change to happen, we probably need not only greater representation of women, but we need to see also a cultural shift in organizations that really places greater value on gender equity in the workplace, and makes it more legitimate and acceptable for women to lend a helping hand to other women in the work place.»

Women are being appointed to ASX200 boards at a faster rate than ever, but a number of major Western Australian companies remain without any female representation on their boards.

Representation of white women in leadership roles improved by 17 % over the nine year period, but for black, latino, and Asian men and women, percentages declined across the board, according to research by the nonprofit Ascend Foundation, an organization that advocates for Asians in business.

To achieve «full representation» of women and minorities by 2020 — a.k.a. employ a workforce that is more representative of actual demographics.

«I believe that the «comply or explain» approach will, over time, lead to stronger representation of women on boards in Canada.

By moving in the direction of having publicly traded companies have a policy that includes consideration of gender representation on boards and in senior management, we hope that they will really take that issue seriously, that they'll consider how they're finding people to be on their boards, how they're moving women through senior management roles and making them eligible for boards appointments.

Both have failed to increase their representation of Hispanics and African Americans and have made only marginal gains when it comes to women.

A study out today in the Harvard Business Review gives an overview of the improved representation of women in managerial positions.

Whatever the means, the end goal ought to be equal gender representation in positions of power, and not just for optics: women make more than 80 % of consumer purchases and are responsible for more than 50 % of business procurement decisions.

• Increased women in workforce from 25.8 % to 27.3 % in 2017, and is working toward better representation in an industry that has a notably low percentage of female employees.

As co-founder of Fabletics, Hudson is particularly focused on having better representation of women on company boards.

More than half of the issuers (56 %) in the survey sample have adopted formal policies addressing the representation of women on boards — and they've been swift about it.

The new rules are clear in scope — they focus on the representation of women in senior roles.

According to the report, companies with the highest number of women in top management positions had better financial performance than companies with a lower representation.

Johnson often uses her social media platform to stick up for women's rights and the representation of all people, including refugees, Muslims, and others.

Teen Vogue put together this list of the women of Young Hollywood, «each of whom is breaking barriers, advocating for equality, and fighting for better representation.»

The representation of women on screen actually declined in 2017, according to San Diego State University's (SDSU) It's A Man's (Celluloid) World report.

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«Distribution of preferences and abilities of men and women differ in part due to biological causes and that these differences may explain why we don't see equal representation of women in tech and leadership,» the unnamed engineer wrote in an essay that went viral within the company before leaking online.

For example, we have low representation of women in technical roles, yet most of our software teams have at least one woman on them.

18 of the 20 companies in Hauser's portfolio are founded by women, highlighting her broader commitment to increasing the representation of female founders and investors.

Through its Reflective Democracy Campaign, WDN has pushed for more women representation at all levels of government.

On Oct. 24, the Ontario Securities Commission held a roundtable on the 22nd floor of the OSC's downtown Toronto office to discuss the results of the Canadian Securities Administrators» annual report on women's representation on public company boards.

The UK ranks sixth in Europe behind Norway, Sweden, France, Finland and Belgium, many of which — including Norway, where women make up 35 % of board members — have set formal quotas for female representation.

Reacting to the review, the CBI called on the government to assist companies in increasing the representation of women with more free childcare and promoting flexible working.

That's a lower level of representation compared to other professional fields, the study's authors found, even as the women held their own in terms of fund performance.

Then, it was time to tackle a bigger hurdle: the discouraging representation of women in tech.

Uber has not only brought on a chief diversity officer but also continues to make progress in terms of representation of black and brown people in leadership roles in the U.S., as well as the overall number of women in its workforce.

Speakers making the case for why it's time to listen to the experts and Canadians — and get down to business and develop a made - in - Canada proportional representation system include Hassan Yussuff, President of the Canadian Labour Congress, Katelynn Northam, electoral reform campaign lead at Leadnow, Farhat Rehman of the Canadian Council of Muslim Women and Annie Bérubé, director of government relations at Équiterre.

There are no women on 30 % of public boards and 68 % of unicorn boards as the tech industry continues to lag others in representation of women.

As director of the UPS Supplier Diversity Process, Homeyer manages internal and external programs designed to increase representation of small, minority - and women - owned businesses in UPS's supplier network.

In other words, while it is certainly good news that women have made major inroads into management, has the unevenness of women's representation across occupations stunted progress in closing the gender wage gap?

According to Frank Dobbin and Alexandra Kalev, organizations with diversity managers, task forces, and intentional mentoring structures report improvements in the representation of women and racial minorities.

It means restoring honest, rigorous policy debate, advocating for more formal representation of women and minority groups, and challenging the retreat of government from investing in our communities.

«These legal aid changes effectively deny legal representation to the most vulnerable women in matters that affect their ability to pay for food and shelter for themselves and their children, to escape violent spouses, and to seek spousal support and custody of their children.»

The MSCI Canada IMI Women's Leadership Select Index is based on the MSCI Canada IMI Index and aims to include companies which are leaders in Canada in terms of female representation on boards and in executive leadership positions and have at least 30 % female directors, or at least three female directors, or two female directors and one woman in a current executive leadership role.

While this is a strong indicator that more women are chasing their dreams of business ownership, it's still far from equal representation.

In this partnership with Hansell LLP, we examine current trends in the representation of women on Canadian boards, and the impact, or lack thereof, of current regulatory requirements.

CCBE examined the impact of the «Comply or Explain» requirement on the diversity of Canada's largest public issuers and found that improvements in the representation of women on boards continues to improve slowly, but Comply or Explain doesn't appear to be a sufficient motivator on its own.