Best Buy leaders say the ParityPledge perfectly aligns with the company’s values and mission. Best Buy Strengthens Commitment to Gender Equity
Best Buy Signs the ParityPledge
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Utah tech companies pledge increase number of women in leadership positions
Tech companies in Utah, including Qualtrics, Domo, Pluralsight and InsideSales, have all taken the ParityPledge to take steps toward gender parity in leadership. Read the story.
Parity.org Launches; Invites Companies to Take the ParityPledgeTM to Pave the Way for Women in Leadership Positions
PRESS RELEASE Parity.org Launches; Invites Companies to Take the ParityPledgeTM to Pave the Way for Women in Leadership Positions Cisco, Lyft and Ralph Lauren Corp. are Among Founding Companies Committed to the ParityPledge; Full List to Be Revealed January 2018 SAN FRANCISCO – September 12, 2017 – Parity.org, a new non-profit organization focused on bringing gender parity to
McKinsey and LeanIn Find Inequalities Up and Down the Ladder in their 2016 study: Women in the Workplace 2016
Women in the Workplace 2016 In corporate America, women fall behind early and keep losing ground with every step. More than 75 percent of CEOs include gender equality in their top ten business priorities, but gender outcomes across the largest companies are not changing. Women are less likely to receive the first critical promotion to
Sheryl Sandberg: Four years after ‘Lean In’ women are not better off
Jessica Guynn , USA TODAYPublished 4:04 p.m. ET March 29, 2017 | Updated 10:28 a.m. ET March 30, 2017 Sheryl Sandberg’s bestseller Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead launched a national conversation on gender in the workplace and an online community of millions of working women ready to bulldoze the barriers they face, from being paid
New data shows only 25% of speakers at tech events are women
New data shows only 25% of speakers at tech events are women Part 1 of a series examining the gender gap in the tech industry by Sandi MacPherson Last Saturday, I had an idea. It was prompted by a problem that I often encounter when creating content for my company Quibb. Others content folks I
Silicon Valley’s newest female general partner has this advice for VC firms ‘aggressively looking for women’
Silicon Valley’s newest female general partner has this advice for VC firms ‘aggressively looking for women’ Published on April 11, 2017 Caroline Fairchild, Senior Editor, Technology and Startups at LinkedIn When Jenny Lefcourt started working for Freestyle Capital in 2014, she didn’t really care what her title was. A serial entrepreneur who founded e-commerce startups
Consideration Can Lead to Placement
Pension Fund Makes Progress on Board Diversity GoPro Agrees to Request for Formal Policy that Includes LGBT in Search for Diverse Board Members New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli today announced that the New York State Common Retirement Fund (Fund) has reached agreement with GoPro Inc. to formally include sexual orientation and gender identity,
BlackRock Calls for Gender Balance in the Boardroom
BlackRock is the latest asset manager to call for greater diversity on boards. Anders Keitz Mar 14, 2017 7:00 AM EDT This is part of a series of stories that comprise TheStreet’s Blue Chip Studio, which will illuminate issues related to corporate board performance, activism, dealmakers and personalities revealed by analysis of data generated by
Trudeau Appoints Women in 50% of Cabinet Seats, “because it’s 2015”
We realize this is old news and it shines a light on what governments are doing, not traditional business; but that said, it’s worth highlighting. We call out Canada as a role model for US business. Check it out: http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2015/11/04/canada_s_justin_trudeau_s_gender_equal_cabinet_because_it_s_2015.html