What does it take to get more women on Canadian boards?
In 2010, only 14.4% of directors of the 100 largest Canadian publicly-listed corporations were women. In the same year, roughly 7% of board members were new and in only one-in-five instances was the...
View ArticleAlberta’s low gender diversity has a lot to do with outdated thinking
The subject of board diversity is everywhere these days, with most of the focus on the “glacial” change in the number of women in board positions. In Alberta, women are noticeably absent from the...
View ArticleWomen breaching barricades in U.S. commercial real estate, but more progress...
Constance Moore, chief executive officer of apartment owner BRE Properties Inc., remembers it was almost all men in the office when she started with the company after graduating from college in 1977....
View ArticleDiversity in management more of a struggle for private companies
Diversity at the most senior levels of business is more than a matter of optics or politics; it leads to more thoughtful and balanced decision-making, due to input from directors and executives with...
View ArticleSenior male executives least concerned about gender diversity: report
The issue of gender diversity on corporate boards and in leadership positions in Canada has attracted plenty of attention in recent years, yet very little has changed in part because of the attitudes...
View ArticleBig business asks Supreme Court to uphold affirmative action in college...
General Electric Co., Xerox Corp. and General Mills Inc. have a message for U.S. courts: Hiring more women and minorities is good for profits. That trio was among 57 large corporations that urged the...
View ArticleA diversified approach to recruitment strategy
Earlier this year, the Research Universities’ Council of B.C. (RUCBC) released a labour-market report that showed the labour woes that have beset its neighours to the east would soon hit B.C. equally...
View ArticleCanada considers while Australia acts on gender diversity
While Canadians debate whether regulators should mandate ways to get more women on boards, the Australian Securities Exchange is moving ahead with a proposal that would compel companies to disclose...
View ArticleSiemens CEO says gender quotas may be necessary after engineering firm fails...
Five years after pledging to promote more women to leadership roles without using legal quotas, Siemens AG is fighting a losing battle. The only two female management board members at Germany’s largest...
View ArticleU.S. watching Canada on gender diversity in the boardroom
Governance advocates in the U.S. are closely watching Ontario’s new initiative to foster gender diversity on corporate boards, according to a U.S.-based governance expert. In an eight-page submission...
View ArticleChecking your blind spot: Uncovering the bias you never knew you had so you...
How do you fix a problem of which you are completely unaware; one that you can’t see? That’s the question Dr. Mahzarin Banaji, a social psychology professor at Harvard, is helping organizations answer...
View ArticleNumber of women on corporate boards on the rise among publicly traded companies
The representation of women on corporate boards is on the rise but the trend is exclusive to publicly traded companies, reveals a research study released this morning. According to the 2013 Catalyst...
View ArticleDecline in working women could stagnate economic growth
Krystyna Recoskie, expecting her third child in July, says she’s done with full-time employment. The 37-year-old wants to spend more time with her kids, so she’s cut back her hours to a couple of...
View ArticleApple to follow suit of Google and Facebook in release of diversity data
Apple Inc. Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook said the iPhone maker plans to eventually release information about the diversity of its workforce, following technology companies including Google Inc. and...
View ArticleHow to build an inclusive workforce
Diversity and the need for more of it, particularly at the top of organizations, is getting a lot of academic, government and media attention. For good reason: study after study shows that diversity is...
View ArticleOntario commits to having at least 40 per cent women make up provincial...
The Ontario government has committed to reviewing appointments to provincial agencies, commissions, and Crown Corporations with a goal of having women make up at least 40 per cent of their boards by...
View ArticleWomen on corporate boards in Canada falls far short of 30 per cent target
The number of women on the boards of Canadian companies has climbed in the nearly two years since securities regulators in a majority of provinces introduced new requirements aimed at boosting gender...
View ArticleInnovation minister makes business case for gender parity on boards
The federal government hopes its corporate governance bill will improve gender diversity on corporate boards, but won’t rule out quotas if the problem persists, innovation minister Navdeep Bains said...
View ArticleWomen’s startups resort more often to personal assets for financing: Study
Women who own businesses struggle more with getting financing than small company owners in general, according to a survey by researchers at Pepperdine University’s Graziadio School of Business and...
View ArticleHow to close tech’s gender gap in a decade? Mandate tech education early on
We all know that the technology industry has a gender problem. But how do you move the needle from awareness to action? Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook’s chief operating officer, and Girls Who Code, a...
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