Sentences with phrase «women on board»

«Aecon has set an objective to have no less than 25 per cent women on its board by 2017,» says Martina Doyle, corporate counsel with Aecon.

Since lawyers are often asked to serve on community and corporate boards, the WLMP advocates for promoting the inclusion and promotion of women on board.

That study concluded that «when the number of women on the board increases, firms act with greater social responsibility.»

«Britain has the lowest gender pay gap on record, there are more women in work than ever before, more women - led businesses than ever before and there are now women on every board in the FTSE 100.

An issuer's policies on the representation of women on the board (including for identifying and nominating female directors), or an explanation for their absence.

• Of all companies surveyed, 29 per cent have one woman or more on the board of directors, while only three per cent have three or more women on their board.

I have two women on my board.

Average dividend payout ratios and return on equity figures were consistently higher over three years for the companies with three or more women on their board, the research finds.

- a late shot of the Sydney Opera House covered in snow - and instead Boyle chooses to focus his attention entirely on the men and women on board Icarus II.

So, if we got the women on board, we thought the guys would follow.

I think they're desperate to have more women on board because most friends find it offensive and aren't interested.

Sure enough, the researchers found that companies with one or more women on the board delivered higher average returns on equity, lower gearing (that is, net debt to equity) and better average growth.

There are few women on board the train.

I think we need more women on board, we certainly do.

Harris - Tigg said as recently as yesterday the African - American women on the board received an unsavory email from Paladino.

In my 43 years I don't recall ever running across anyone so unabashedly soulless as some of the women on this board.

All of the companies in the Fund have one or more women on their board of directors.

Furthermore, he recommended quoted companies to be required to disclose every year the proportion of women on the board, in senior executive positions and female employees in the whole organisation.

«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.

All the industry giants have been criticized for continuing to have such low numbers of women on the board, in management positions or even in the workforce in general.

There's good reason for their efforts: Nearly three quarters of the startups surveyed have no women on their board of directors.

Aaron A. Dhir, of York University's Osgoode Hall Law School, concluded having at least three women on a board has significant positive outcomes for a company.

When I first joined the board [in 2010], there were two other women on the board out of 10 people.

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.

However, it is worth noting — as Fortune did in a March analysis — that Airbnb has no women on its board.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

But in the end, does it actually matter to have that many more women on boards?

And many of the companies without policies said they choose to make appointments based on merit, not gender — despite mounting research that demonstrates a strong business case for more women on boards.

In Canada and the U.S., the number of women on boards of publicly traded companies sits at about 20 %.

The funds include the Pax Ellevate Global Women's Leadership Fund, which invests in companies that have two or more women on their boards.

«It actually does send a shiver up my spine, it actually makes me kind of angry that there aren't enough women on boards,» said Hudson.

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.

Last December, the Ontario Securities Commission introduced new rules that requires firms to disclose the percentage of women on their boards and in executive positions.

But we should aim for 40 % to 60 % women on boards over the next 15 years.

Davies, the former trade minister, last week criticised Hastings and Worldpay, two companies preparing for large flotations, for having no women on their boards.

The government - backed report from Lord Mervyn Davies, who has been championing gender equality in the boardroom, shows that FTSE 100 companies have exceeded the target of having 25 % women on their boards — more than doubling the number in 2011 when the target was set.

Submission to the OSC re: OSC Staff Consultation Paper 58 - 401 Disclosure Requirements Regarding Women on Boards and in Senior Management

One Danish female director talked about this: «There is very much the attitude in Denmark now, which is «haven't we talked about this issue of women on boards enough now?

«When we first boarded the ship, the Norwegian captain, a very nice guy, he went to me and said «Mr. Bezos, I've taken the liberty, because your mother's on board — we've never had a woman on board before — of removing all the pornography from the common areas.