Sentences with phrase «on women on boards»

Interviewed by Vawn Himmelsbach for Canadian Lawyer InHouse magazine on women on boards and in senior management, January 6, 2015.

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White's customer is always «my woman» or «she,» who needs shoes for board meetings, silent auctions and running around on the weekends, not to mention for the opera or a bar mitzvah.

Earlier this year, for example, Judy Zaichkowsky of Simon Fraser University's Beedie School of Business published a study indicating that the presence of just one woman on a company's board resulted in significantly higher standards of corporate governance (which has an established correlation to better financial performance).

British bank Barclays recently started issuing exchange - traded notes on the NYSE Arca exchange (similar to ETFs, only they are derivatives guaranteed by the bank rather than invested in the underlying securities) that track a Women in Leadership index of U.S. companies whose CEOs are women or whose boards are at least one - quarter feWomen in Leadership index of U.S. companies whose CEOs are women or whose boards are at least one - quarter fewomen or whose boards are at least one - quarter female.

Arianna Huffington, an advocate for women and the CEO of a wellness company, also sits on the board.

«In the financial industry, there's been a lot of debate, post — financial crisis, around different approaches to risk and gender difference,» says Brenda Trenowden, global head of funds at ANZ Banking Group in London and a member of the steering committee of the 30 % Club, which works to get more women on corporate boards.

Last October, I looked around the table during a Lessonly board meeting and thought to myself, «How do the women on the team feel when they walk past this room and see a bunch of men making big decisions on their behalf?»

For a number of years, I had been on the board of Project Hope, which operates a shelter and provides services for homeless women and children in Boston.

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.

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 women were also asked why they believe so few women sit on corporate boards.

About 100 Boardlist candidates (some of whom already sit on not - for - profit, for - profit, or advisory boards, and the vast majority of whom live in the U.S.) were asked a number of questions about their experiences in business, and also about the fact that so few women serve on corporate boards.

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.

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.

In 1992, she became the first African American woman to travel to space as a crew member on board the Space Shuttle Endeavor.

More women than men are being appointed to the boards of Australia's top 200 companies for the first time on record.

The survey comes from theBoardlist, which compiles lists of women who are qualified to sit on corporate boards, and also helps search committees find them.

In 2012, women accounted for 19 % of board seats on U.S. companies.

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

Even when comparing the sexes with the same job title at the same company and using similar education and experience, the gender pay gap persists across the board: Men earned 2.4 percent more than women on average, down slightly from last year, according to a study by salary - tracking website PayScale.

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

Going into 2017, 21 on the list had total gender parity, and 42 company boards had between 40 percent and 50 percent women.

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 opinion piece from The New York Times editorial board — part of a larger series on gun violence that also looks at the horrific statistics on the murder of women in the U.S. — focuses on the «boyfriend loophole,» something that may be familiar to regular Broadsheet readers.

At the White House's first United States of Women Summit in 2016, Buffett confessed that he only thought to put a woman on the Berkshire Hathaway board in 2003 — nearly 40 years after taking over the company — by the suggestion of his wife Susie.

In the same time period, in the U.S., the percentage of women on boards actually fell, from 21 to 20 percent.

With the goal of increasing female - owned business survival rates and further fueling the growth of female entrepreneurship on the whole, hundreds of women such as Gore are gathering at today's inaugural Circle Board summit.

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

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.

According to TheBoardlist, 68 % of unicorn tech companies (those with billion dollar - plus valuations), have no women on their boards.

More important, why did having women on a board make a difference at all?

(On the plus side, the tech industry saw a 13.5 % increase since 2015, with women accounting for 40 % of the board seats filled.)

No women sit on Audi's Management Board and its 14 person American executive team only has two women.

According to the census, approximately 40 % of companies (177 in 2011) had no women serving on their boards — a shockingly high number.

Women's instincts made them better problem - solvers, but the researchers posited that those tendencies could make them look like troublemakers on male - dominated boards.

U.S. companies have been under pressure to increase the role of women and minorities on their boards and top management.

Taken to its logical extreme, his research seems to argue that boards should have only female directors, but he's careful to point out that not all women score highly on complex moral reason (sometimes known as «CMR») decision - making, and some men do.

Some of the effects were measurable — boards with more women are linked to a 53 % higher return on equity, according to one study, and their companies go bankrupt less frequently.

Most Canadian business leaders agree that more women are needed on corporate boards — female representation has hovered at about 10 % for years.

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.

The researchers pointed out that when women were present on a board that was doing the bidding for a company, there was no significant association with the engagement of top - ranked advisors.

The number of women on corporate boards could be improved.

I have taught and advised hundreds of women who are enormously frustrated at the blockage on boards by over-tenured, over-boarded, entrenched pedigree directors.

It's clear that if you measure the success of these programs purely on the basis of whether they get more women into board seats, they absolutely work.

There have been a variety of studies showing that women in leadership roles equates to better company performance, including a report from Credit Suisse that says that companies with more than one woman on their boards have outperformed those with no women on their boards in the stock market.

Norway mandates 40 % women on boards, as does Spain, France and Iceland.

It means that when we discuss policies to increase the number of women on boards, we're not arguing about where we're going — we're just arguing about how to get there.

Women make up a quarter of his eight - member executive leadership team and account for four of 10 seats on the board of directors.

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

In a recent proposal put forward to Canada's major banks, Quebec - based shareholder rights group MÉDAC (Mouvement d'éducation et de défense des actionnaires) asked the Big Five to commit to achieving equal representation between men and women on their boards in 10 years.