Sentences with phrase «with gender diversity»

Both women and men who work for organisations with gender diversity policies and practices in place, feel more positive about their ambition, pay and career opportunities.

In my final article in this series promoting women on boards, I will evaluate some tools to help advisors and influencers engage decision - makers to get them on board with gender diversity and inclusion within their own ranks.

First, the elections have highlighted Parliament's ongoing issues with gender diversity, a subject Labour MPs Jess Phillips and Harriet Harman have recently raised in the chamber.

(And if you're in the market for more startling numbers having to do with gender diversity, «the findings come on the heels of a report by the McKinsey Global Institute that showed $ 28 trillion could be added to global GDP by 2025 if men and women contributed equally to the workforce,» the UK's Guardian newspaper notes.

Not exact matches

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.

Companies with women in senior level positions tend to do better than those without any gender diversity, Smith pointed out, citing research by First Round Capital, a major VC firm with more than 300 portfolio companies.

Currently they release information on the number of women in their total workforce and in their leadership roles and publish more detailed information about gender balance internally, but are still working with lawyers to navigate the stricter data collection and protection measures in Germany, where the company is based, and other countries where their employees work, SAP's chief diversity and inclusion officer Anka Wittenberg told Fortune.

Diversity does not begin and end with gender.

Canada's seventh - largest — and largest foreign - owned — bank, with more than $ 90 billion in assets and $ 2 billion in annual revenue, the company under her watch has become an exemplar of gender diversity, with equal numbers of men and women on the board and in senior management.

The market that we serve [requires that] we understand culture, we understand diversity, gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, age, persons with disabilities, indigenous people.

Scores of recent studies have linked companies with increased gender diversity with increased ROI.

«The principles of the AIA are clearly stated with regard to climate, diversity, affordable housing, gender pay equality.»

«Parenting daughters reduces the bias that one has towards women, which leads to more female hires,» the researchers wrote, noting that firms with a greater number of daughters over the age of 12 also lead to even greater gender diversity in firms.

Another study of more than 4,000 companies showed that those with a greater degree of gender diversity were more likely to introduce more radical innovations.

Diversity was another weak spot, with the average respondent believing tech hiring is 14 years away from matching the gender and ethnic mix of the U.S. more broadly.

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Aspiration evaluates mutual fund companies across three categories — social, environmental, and governance programs — and will choose to work with them only if they have committed to more employee training to reduce safety violations on site, reducing their carbon emissions, or increasing gender diversity at the board level.

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.

As CtW commented this time around, «While Ms. Friedman herself brings a modicum of gender diversity to the board, her failure to address the board's broader composition over her 21 year tenure suggests that the board will be better served by replacing her with a fresh and diverse nominee.»

In last week's statement, Horowitz and Hutchins reiterated that they were «committed identifying a diverse slate of potential candidates and interviewing a range of candidates reflecting the diversity of the qualified candidate pool,» and that interest in the job has come from people with «demographic and gender diversity.»

Other highlights for the year included the introduction of GVBOT's Pillar Partners, the expansion of the Company of Young Professionals program to Richmond, North Vancouver, and the Tri-Cities, a new advocacy initiative with the Canadian Global Cities Council, and the WE FOR SHE Conference on gender diversity.

June 10, 2015 - OSC Chair Howard Wetston was quoted in the Financial Post about his remarks at the CCGG AGM with respect to gender diversity on boards.

June 10, 2015 - OSC Chair Howard Wetston was quoted in The Globe and Mail about his remarks at the CCGG AGM with respect to gender diversity on boards.

The Conference Board and Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business, in partnership with The SAIS Center for Transatlantic Relations at Johns Hopkins University, developed a scenario model that companies can use to enhance the gender diversity of their boards.

Can investing in companies with favorable gender diversity records effect change and produce positive financial returns?

In Morgan Stanley's view, there is no single motivation to pursuing Investing with Impact and gender diversity based investing, and certainly more than one approach to implementing.

For instance, one approach is to use gender diversity as a screen by minimizing exposure to companies with poor gender diversity records including weak policies, poor supply chain safety records or involvement in the adult entertainment industry.

Integrating gender diversity into your investing strategies is just one aspect of Morgan Stanley's Investing with Impact Platform.

2017.03.07 Fortune Knowledge Group, in collaboration with Royal Bank of Canada (RBC), Releases Study on Gender Diversity Among Fortune 500 companies in the U.S.

The link between company financial performance and gender diversity is the latest in an emerging body of academic and qualitative research that links well - rounded and inclusive work environments with returns.

To meet that demand, Morgan Stanley's quantitative analysis now provides lists of stocks that screen well or poorly on gender diversity metrics, along with favorable / unfavorable stock selection model rankings.

Companies with strong gender diversity criteria may be better positioned across all performance drivers, while companies with relatively poor gender diversity criteria may be exposed to higher levels of risk as a result of discrimination lawsuits, exploitation issues and poor talent retention.

Just because a company is based in a state with progressive politics doesn't mean the company's executive team will reflect the gender diversity that the state supports and promotes

That's why they left their respective venture capital firms last month to start Aspect Ventures, a fund that aims not only to invest in early - stage mobile startups but to infuse these fledgling companies with some added gender and cultural diversity.

In an effort to bring some added focus and momentum to the issue, we've recently joined forces with Women in Capital Markets and the Women's Executive Network — two leading advocacy groups in Canada — to promote and support gender diversity in investment management.»

In this report, it was noted that CEOs of companies most successful at creating gender diversity have been committed to the cause at a much more personal level, with a passion that «goes well beyond logic and economics.»

Crowdfund Insider Our Gender Diversity Is Absolutely A Factor In Our Success»: Q&A With Krista Morgan, CEO & Co-Founder Of P2Binvestor 11/5/2015

Pax and Ellevate came together to form Pax Ellevate Management because they share the same vision about the critical role that gender diversity plays in business success over time, as well as the investment opportunity associated with investing in women.

Why, asks John Leo in U.S. News & World Report, is his own constituency so willing to bring him down with protests, disrupted basketball games, and boycotts, when Pres. Lawrence worked so hard to make Rutgers a campus that «bristles with the enforcement tools of diversity: a speech code, real courses replaced by «multicultural curricular change,» diversity awareness «training» in lectures and freshman orientation sessions, a tolerance for ethnic and racial segregation in dorms («a self - affirming environment,» as Lawrence puts it), and professors who learn not to raise unapproved ideas about race, gender, and the campus power system built around multiculturalism»?

In recent years, intense focus on diversity and multiculturalism has accentuated racial, sexual, ethnic, class, and gender differences on campus, frustrating attempts to imagine the university as a cohesive moral unit with common ends.

In a society increasingly aware of the ways in which gender, race, class and worldview shape our ways of knowing, my good intentions quickly proved to be insufficient in working with such diversity.

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(21) They must be hospitable to the whole family of God, enabling the family members in their diversity to address with integrity the whole range of issues that divide us, issues of Christology and ecclesiology, issues of culture, race, and gender, issues of social justice and the integrity of creation.

In September 2016, the NCAA asked its members to sign a non-binding pledge «to specifically commit to establishing initiatives for achieving ethnic and racial diversity, gender equity and inclusion with a focus and emphasis on hiring practices in intercollegiate athletics to reflect the diversity of our membership and our nation.»

The makeup of the powerful education policymaking panel will be drastically different, with increased racial and gender diversity and a greater representation of public school educators.

In keeping with the Green Key Values of diversity, social justice and feminism, we support full legal and political equality for all persons, regardless of sex, gender, sexual orientation, or gender identity, characteristics, and expression.

DiNapoli also announced agreements with four Fortune 500 companies to formally include gender and racial diversity in their considerations of board candidates.

With the election of Diane James, Ukip has tipped the gender balance in British politics, but true diversity is still some way off.

It seems that although gay men broadly feel accepted in the academic community, there is still a long way to go before the full spectrum of gender and sexual diversity feels welcomed with open arms.

For all the vocal concerns about diversity within the planning for the March for Science, the speakers and the messages they delivered included support for the LBGT community, people with disabilities, Native Americans, and people of all genders, races, and ages in the sciences.