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    2. Hurdles Remain One Year After California Passes Law Mandating Women in Boardrooms

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      Hurdles Remain One Year After California Passes Law Mandating Women in Boardrooms
      California led the way last year with a pioneering law requiring publicly traded companies headquartered in the state to have at least one woman on their board of directors by the end of 2019. But a year after then-Gov. Jerry Brown, a Democrat, signed the measure into law, data indicate that boosting the number of women on boards of directors may be easier said than done for companies in the ...
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    3. Women Now Hold One Out of Every Five Seats on Corporate Boards in America's Top Companies

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      Women Now Hold One Out of Every Five Seats on Corporate Boards in America's Top Companies
      Women hold one out of every five seats on corporate boards for the country's 3,000 largest publicly traded companies, according to new data cited in The Wall Street Journal . After the #MeToo movement, companies fired many powerful men in business for sexual harassment charges. Research suggests diverse teams perform better than homogeneous ones. stories. America's largest companies are now powered by more women than ever before...
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    4. Research: When Women Are on Boards, Male CEOs Are Less Overconfident

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      Research: When Women Are on Boards, Male CEOs Are Less Overconfident
      A number of governments (notably those in India, California, and parts of Europe) are pushing for greater female representation in the boardroom. And several studies suggest why: Having women on the board results better acquisition and investment decisions and in less aggressive risk-taking, yielding benefits for shareholders. Whats less clear is why these effects happen...
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    5. Women Get Bigger Share of Board Seats

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      Women Get Bigger Share of Board Seats
      One-fifth of seats on a broad swath of public-company boards are now held by women, a sign of change as US corporations face increased pressure to diversify. The share of female board members in the Russell 3000 index, which includes most public companies on major US stock exchanges, increased to 20% in the second quarter of this year from 19% the previous quarter, according to Equilar, a governance-data firm. When ...
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    10. Behind the Curtain of WeWork’s All-Male Board of Directors

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      Behind the Curtain of WeWork’s All-Male Board of Directors
      WeWork recently revealed the makeup of its Board of Directors in advance of its much anticipated IPO, and the selections are already stirring up some controversy. Many have zeroed in on the fact that none of the board members are women, despite the fact that the co-working giants S-1 filing promoted a culture of inclusivity. And because WeWork co-founder Adam Neumann remains chairman of the board and its majority shareholder ...
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    13. WeWork Doesn’t Have a Single Woman Director, According to IPO Filing

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      WeWork Doesn’t Have a Single Woman Director, According to IPO Filing
      Its 2019, and a $47 billion company is going public with an all-male board of directors. WeWorks parent known formally as the We Company disclosed who comprises its board in an initial public offering prospectus early on Wednesday. Among the seven members, not a single one is female. The company was most-recently valued privately at $47 billion although its unclear if theyll receive the same price tag from the public ...
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    15. California Sued Over Law Requiring Women on Corporate Boards

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      California Sued Over Law Requiring Women on Corporate Boards
      Californias first-in-the-nation law mandating women on boards of publicly held companies is facing what appears to be its first legal challenge. Judicial Watch, a Washington-based conservative activist group, said in a lawsuit filed this week on behalf of three California taxpayers that spending taxpayer money enforcing the law is illegal under the California constitution...
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    16. 2 Gender-Diversity Trends in the Corporate Boardroom

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      2 Gender-Diversity Trends in the Corporate Boardroom
      Madison Sargis: A few weeks ago, it was reported that all-male boards are officially a thing of the past for the SP 500. And while it's great to see such positive headline figures, Morningstar wanted to highlight two trends that paint a less rosy picture about gender diversity within the corporate boardroom. First, small-cap companies are lagging large caps. Gender diversity for small caps is only where large caps ...
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    1. We would like you to set out how you intend to make genuine progress to improving board diversity. We therefore ask you to set out what actions the board is taking to ensure that substantial progress is made to meet the Hampton-Alexander 2020 targets.
      In UK: FTSE 350 Firms Under Fire Over ‘unacceptable’ Lack of Female Directors
    2. Often when we engage with companies on the issue of board diversity we hear that the biggest challenge is a lack of suitable female candidates.
      In Investor State Street Uses Financial Clout to Get More Women to the Top
    3. While our board has determined not to make a recommendation either in favour of or opposed to the shareholder proposal, we believe that our current practices and recent enhancements to our new director candidate selection process support board diversity.
      In With No Women on its Board, Shareholder Calls for Diversity Policy at Tim Hortons owner RBI