Though women are represented in almost every category at the festival, the stats for
women directors at Cannes aren't much better than last year's, and parity remains a distant not - reality, so there's still a lot of work to be done.
Being that the subject was the lack of
women directors at Cannes, it was especially disheartening to sit through Loin de Mon Pere (That Lovely Girl) as part of the Un Certain Regard.
Discerning moviegoers attracted by the sheer novelty of
a woman director at the helm of such a big movie and willing to give Clooney the benefit of the doubt will ultimately be satisfied by the final product, but it remains to be seen if an average multiplex crowd can be wowed by a movie that sacrifices cheap thrills in favor of global relevance.
Not exact matches
Theresia Gouw, once a partner with Accel Partners, and Fonstad, formerly managing
director at Draper Fisher Jurvetson, founded Aspect Ventures; Aileen Lee left Kleiner Perkins to launch seed fund Cowboy Ventures; Gilt Groupe's former CEO Susan Lyne hatched AOL's BBG (Built by Girls) Ventures; serial entrepreneur Anu Duggal launched the Female Founders Fund with the express purpose of investing in
women.
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.
After working as a
director and senior merchant
at Victoria's Secret, Michelle Cordeiro Grant wanted to create a new experience and point of view in the lingerie category, one that delivers simple, quality products and reflects the healthy, confident, and beautiful
women wearing them.
To see a
woman step up and take the place of a man thats been accused and is resigning because of his own history with sexual harassment,» said Jean Sinzdak, associate
director at the Center for American
Women and Politics
at Rutgers University.
The former New York University art student, fashion intern
at Teen Vogue and fashion assistant
at W and Vogue started her website, Into the Gloss, in 2010 as a way to learn and share tips from
women she admired, including Arianna Huffington, J.Crew creative
director Jenna Lyons and the world's top makeup artists.
At the end of 2016, 738 companies — roughly 25 percent of the list — had no
women on their boards of
directors.
«This has enormous promise in changing the way we do mental health care as well as medical care,» says David Ahern,
director of behavioral informatics and e-health
at Boston's Brigham and
Women's Hospital.
Comparing full - time, year - round workers,
women earn 77 cents for every dollar men earn, said Dana Britton, director of the Center for Women and Work at Rutgers University in Newark,
women earn 77 cents for every dollar men earn, said Dana Britton,
director of the Center for
Women and Work at Rutgers University in Newark,
Women and Work
at Rutgers University in Newark, N.J..
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).
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.
We even know that, if there is even one
woman on a company's board of
directors, attendance is better
at board meetings.
Income tax is likely the last thing on your mind as the holiday season kicks in, but now is perhaps the best time to start strategizing for your 2015 return, said Manisha Thakor, CFA,
director of Wealth Strategies for
Women at Buckingham and The BAM Alliance.
Dr. Leah Millheiser, a clinical assistant professor
at Stanford University School of Medicine and
director of the Female Sexual Medicine program, told INSIDER that she would recommend the copper IUD for any
woman who is concerned about her mental health.
At the end of February, Lazard announced that it had named 10 new managing
directors worldwide — none of whom were
women.
«In our celebrity focused culture, a young star like Emma Watson has the power to amplify important social messages,» says Katie Hood, a senior fellow
at Duke University who teaches a «
Women as Leaders» course and who recently became executive
director of the anti-domestic violence One Love Foundation.
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.
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.
Maya Raghu,
director of workplace equality
at the National
Women's Law Center, says this is not mere «locker room talk.»
«It's pretty clear that caring for children is a barrier for
women entrepreneurs,» says Jason Wiens, policy
director for the Kauffman Foundation, citing a study that looked
at men and
women who had a PhD in a scientific field.
While those minorities are spelled out as
women, or disadvantaged businesses, or for veterans, LGBT - owned businesses are not specified, says Theresa Harrison,
director of supplier diversity
at Ernst & Young.
«I hadn't realized that it was the only thing on my resume that pointed out I was a
woman,» recalls Wall, 53, managing
director at Franklin Beach Energy, a solar asset advisory consultancy based in Boston.
In 2008, one year into her tenure
at the company, she reported that her
director was sexually harassing
women in her group.
«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 Insti
women, we see single
women are more likely give than single men,» said Debra Mesch, director of Women's Philanthropy Insti
women are more likely give than single men,» said Debra Mesch,
director of
Women's Philanthropy Insti
Women's Philanthropy Institute.
Green joined Rebecca Minkoff, co-founder and creative
director of Rebecca Minkoff and Fortune's Michal Lev - Ram
at the Most Powerful
Women Summit in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday to discuss the future of retail brands.
Sarah Kaplan,
director of the Institute for Gender + the Economy
at the University of Toronto, worries they push
women to the sidelines, instead of levelling the playing field.
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.
Director Jonathan Levine («The Wackness,» «The Night Before») and screenwriter Katie Dippold (2016's «Ghostbusters») were obviously going for an edgy «mom - com,» in which the men are idiots and a story of self - discovery is
at the core (Emily helps Ecuadorian
women form a human chain to take water from a well, which brings her to an aha moment).
«Part of it is just a matter of responding to an overly crowded market in terms of
women's fashion,» explains James Smerdon,
director of retail consulting
at Colliers.
Gouw and Fonstad are two of the highest - profile
women in the venture capital industry, with Gouw having been a partner
at Accel and Fonstad a managing
director at Draper Fisher Jurvetson.
President Trump fired Secretary of State Rex Tillerson Tuesday morning and said he will replace him with CIA
Director Mike Pompeo, who will be supposedly succeeded at the agency by the deputy director Gina Haspel, the first woman to hold the p
Director Mike Pompeo, who will be supposedly succeeded
at the agency by the deputy
director Gina Haspel, the first woman to hold the p
director Gina Haspel, the first
woman to hold the position.
«
Women are founding companies
at a very significant pace today, but they're still relatively smaller numbers focusing on high growth venture - backable businesses,» says Cindy Padnos, managing
director of Illuminate Ventures.
So far, half of all states have already established a higher «exit income limit» than «entrance income limit» for child care subsidies, says Karen Schulman,
director of child care and early learning research
at the National
Women's Law Center.
This means looking
at the talent pipeline for female executives and emerging non-executive
directors to ensure we create opportunities and the right conditions for
women to succeed.»
«I often consider the composition of a company's board and executive team to see if their espoused values truly reflect their reality,» says activist Jamia Wilson, the executive
director at the non-profit
Women, Action, & The Media.
«The extra reward you get in the form of higher yields from stretching on maturity will come back to haunt you should inflation trend upwards faster than expected,» said financial advisor Manisha Thakor,
director of wealth strategies for
women at The BAM Alliance.
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.
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.
The ISS study — which looked
at directors nominated by dissidents and by the boards themselves in response to activism — found that
women made up 8.4 percent of this group, compared with 25 percent of new
directors at all S&P 1500 companies in 2015.
«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.
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.
Washington, DC --- The
Women's Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC) honored Kathy Homeyer,
Director of Supplier Diversity
at UPS, with the William J. Alcorn Award.
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.&r
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.&r
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.&r
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.&r
women - owned businesses, and help these
women continue to grow their businesses.&r
women continue to grow their businesses.»
Plus: former Fox News host Gretchen Carlson, NYSE Group COO Stacey Cunningham, Facebook VP Carolyn Everson, CVS EVP Helena Foulkes, Ariel Investments President Mellody Hobson, U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar, Billie Jean King, Instagram COO Marne Levine, Mars
director and former Chairman Victoria Mars, fashion entrepreneur Rebecca Minkoff, Ann Romney, Ivanka Trump, designer Diane von Furstenberg, Verizon EVP Marni Walden, U.S. Secretary of the Air Force Dr. Heather Wilson, and Sally Yates, and senior
women at leading global companies including Amazon, Airbnb, Apple,
AT&T, Coca - Cola, Disney, eBay, Google, Goldman Sachs, IBM, Johnson & Johnson, Microsoft, Nike, PayPal, Procter & Gamble, Salesforce, Starbucks, and Unilever.
«Currently 18 FTSE 100 companies have no female
directors at all and nearly half of all FTSE 250 companies do not have a
woman in the boardroom.
Unfortunately, the second panel «Integrating diversity into the mining system» was scheduled
at a time that overlapped with the
Women in Mining cocktail reception, said Tanya van Biesen, who spoke on the second panel and is executive director of Catalyst Canada, a non-profit that works to advance women in the workp
Women in Mining cocktail reception, said Tanya van Biesen, who spoke on the second panel and is executive
director of Catalyst Canada, a non-profit that works to advance
women in the workp
women in the workplace.
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.
Karen Newman, marketing
director at Royal LePage Atlantic Homestead in St. John's, was instrumental in setting up a hair salon
at a local
women's shelter.