NEWS AND INSIGHTS UPDATE: The WomenCorporateDirectors (WCD) Global Nominating Commission's Call to Action (part of the organization's "Best Practices for Director Selection and Development" report released this month) offers a 10-point action plan to increase the number of women on corporate boards. The goal of the WCD Global Nominating Commission is explained on the WCD … [Read more...]
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2013 Trends and The Power of Women
Guest Post By: Andrea Simon, PhD., president of Simon Associates Management Consultants. Learn more about the author at the end of this post. I was recently asked to think about how 2013 trends will impact women in the work force and how women will impact the trends. And I have to say, this is a very intriguing topic. As a female entrepreneur who has built a successful … [Read more...]
Gender Gap on Corporate Boards in Canada Creates Calls for Quotas
NEWS AND INSIGHTS UPDATE: Gender inequality at executive levels and on corporate boards of directors is a global problem. To date, nine countries have created some kind of quota requirements for corporate board diversity and another 20 have added some type of requirement for companies to address corporate board diversity in their annual reports. Despite these efforts to boost … [Read more...]
Men and Women Corporate Directors Disagree on Boardroom Diversity
NEWS AND INSIGHTS UPDATE: The 2012 Board of Directors Survey, which was conducted by WomenCorporate Directors (WCD), Heidrick & Struggles, Professor Boris Groysberg of the Harvard Business School, and researcher Deborah Bell, was released today. The study surveyed over 1,000 directors from around the world to identify strategic priorities and views on their own boards' … [Read more...]
6 Highly Successful Executive Women Share Insights into Women in the Boardroom
NEWS AND INSIGHTS UPDATE: Despite the fact that research shows companies with women on on their boards perform better than companies with all-male boards, not one woman has been appointed to a board position for an FTSE100 company in the past year. Rather than looking at the negative side of that piece of news, Maeve Hosea of Marketing Week gathered inspirational advice and … [Read more...]
36 Canadian Boards with No Female Directors
NEWS AND INSIGHTS UPDATE: Last week, I shared information about the lack of female leadership among U.S. companies like Apple, but the gender inequity isn't just a U.S. Problem. Dr. Richard Leblance of York University's Governance Gateway blog shares 36 Canadian boards with no female directors which he created through his own research (note that his list is not exhaustive). He … [Read more...]
Sound Bites and Statistics from Women Business Leaders [Infographic]
Confidence, inclusivity, and knowledge -- those are three of the predominant themes researchers from the University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School found when studying sound bites and statistics related to women business leaders. According to the infographic the University of North Carolina researchers put together to visually communicate the data and quotes … [Read more...]
Do we really have to force women into the boardroom?
Guest post by Gareth Cartman (learn more about Gareth at the end of this post) It appears that patience is fast running out in the halls of the European Parliament. A vote to introduce quotas securing at least 30% of boardroom places for women by 2015 has gone through, and that rises to 40% by 2020. Countries are already adopting their own laws – France, for example, has moved … [Read more...]
Why You Want Women on Your Team
Post by Jane K. Stimmler, contributing Women on Business writer Making a case for more female participation on Boards of Directors, executive groups, strategic committees, project task forces or, well, just about any group, just got a little easier. A recent research study described in June's Harvard Business Review submits that having a group comprised of more women will … [Read more...]
Women Executives More than Twice as Likely to Leave Jobs
Female executives are more than twice as likely to leave their jobs as men. This includes both voluntarily and involuntarily departures. Yesterday I was interviewed by a reporter writing for CareerBuilder on negotiating for women in business, and the data from a study by John Becker-Blease of Oregon State University, and his colleagues from Loyola Marymount University and … [Read more...]