The percentage of companies with women board members increased with company size, but gender diversity continues to be limited.
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In addition, women board directors seem to go for smaller firms (less is more) and they consummate the deal more frequently.
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The national average of all women board directors is half that, or 15.7%, according to December 2010 figures from Catalyst, an organization that studies women in the workplace.
Looking at companies with women on their boards in 2011, the research group Catalyst found a 26% difference in return on invested capital (ROIC) between the top-quartile companies (with 19-44% women board representation) and bottom-quartile companies (with no female directors).
Rice addressed the first session of the United Nations (UN) Women Executive Board.
Christie Hefner took the helm of a male-dominated company in a male-dominated industry at a time when few women held board room positions.
As we know, non-robotic women on board ship are bad luck.
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The Dutch Government has given the go-ahead to the Women on Waves group to offer the abortion pill to pregnant women on board their boat, Aurora.
This lack of progress may impact US competitiveness given the extensive evidence that indicates companies with more women on their board outperform companies with fewer or no women directors.
The fastest and most effective strategy for increasing the ranks of women at the board level is to ask CEOs to commit to adding women directors in the 2013 proxy season.
Berkshire has two women on its board of directors but none in the C-suite.
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On average, however, the paper concluded that firms perform worse as the proportion of women on the board increases.
As previously mentioned, The Boston Beer Company, which brews Sam Adams beer, does not have any women on its board.
There is certainly no shortage of companies capable of producing stellar results with few or no women on the board.
Better yet, add two women to the board and you might even avoid becoming the subject of an acerbic Wall Street Journal headline.
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Even fewer women chair the board or audit committee, serve as financial experts, and only 12% of compensation committees have a female chair.
Research conducted by authors Stephen Bear, Noushi Rahman, and Corinne Post found the number of women on a board has a positive impact on CSR.
The report's author, former minister Lord Davies of Abersoch, urged FTSE 350 companies to boost the percentage of women at the board table to 25% by 2015.
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Certainly there is research that points that way, yet the research is mixed as to how having a critical mass of women on the board affects share price.
Its report, published in July, shows that companies with a few women on the board of directors did better during this period of economic strife than those with none.
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It was an acknowledgement of her power, and a nudge for her to use it for a structural change, namely insisting that there be some women on the board call it a quota if you like.
As more women become trained on how to invest and in whom to invest, it will be interesting to observe the success rate of companies that have women investors and board members vs those that do not.
Another role for women could be an advisory board to the pontiff on the role of women and women's issues in the church.
According to a recent Committee for Economic Development report on women on boards, as other countries institute board diversity quotas, they may consider board-ready American women to hit their more aggressive targets for women directors.
With 1.7m more women than men convention went by the board: for the first time women's advertisements outnumbered those placed by men.
Finding qualified women in a country where only 9% of board seats were held by women in 2003 and the vast majority of senior corporate jobs are filled by men proved challenging.
This board of women are amazing mothers, who walk the path of motherhood ahead of me.
Then Michael remembered that there are two women on the Dell board of directors, so he mentioned that.
Like Georgia, a majority of those voting early in North Carolina -- 56 percent -- were women, the election board said.
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