Washington, DC, November 19, 2019
Today, the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 5084, the Improving Corporate Governance Through Diversity Act of 2019, a bill that requires public companies to
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Measuring Success – The Boston Club 2019 Census
The 2019 Census of Women Directors and Executive Officers of Massachusetts Public Companies 
“In 2003, 50 of the largest 100 public companies in Massachusetts had no women on their boards of directors, and women held only 74 of the 822 total board seats. 56 of the 100 companies had no women executive officers. In this 2019 Census, women comprise a
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State Treasurers, NYC Comptroller, & Private Institutional Investors Launch Northeast Investors’ Diversity Initiative
Coalition Pushes Board Diversity Benefits and Best Practices; Urges Region’s Companies to Appoint More Women and People of Color to Boards of Directors
HARTFORD, CT ― Today, Connecticut State Treasurer Shawn T. Wooden
, along with institutional investors from states across the region, announced the Northeast Investors’ Diversity
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The state of board gender diversity
As boards seek to improve their effectiveness and consider how best to carry out their oversight role amid rapid change and shifting expectations, diversity—of skills, background, and experience—must be top of mind. Institutional investors and other stakeholders, including employees and customers, continue to focus
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Women in the Workplace 2019
In the last five years, we’ve seen more women rise to the top levels of companies. An increasing number of companies are seeing the value of having more women in leadership, and they’re proving that they can make progress on gender diversity. This is an important step in the right direction.
...we find that banks with more gender diversity on their board perform better once the composition of these boards reaches a critical level of gender diversity, corresponding to a board female share of around 13-17 percent.