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To boost gender diversity on corporate boards, investor pressure works

by Meghan McCarty Carino
Nov 23, 2022
The number of women directors at major companies increased 50% from 2016 to 2019, according to the National Bureau of Economic Research.
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How female leadership can uplift companies — and why it's so undervalued

by Kai Ryssdal and Sarah Leeson
Oct 13, 2022
Female-led companies tend to outperform those led by men, yet women are a small minority among CEOs and startup founders.
Female-led companies tend to outperform those led by men, but women are underrepresented in upper management.
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Judge challenges a California law mandating diversity on corporate boards

by Lily Jamali
Apr 6, 2022
The law, which went into effect in 2020, required California-based companies to appoint directors from underrepresented communities.
The percentage of female directors on California boards doubled in the three years since the gender law passed, one researcher said.
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The biggest tech conference has some of the same old problems with women

by Molly Wood
Jan 11, 2019
Progress is just ... slow.
CES 2019 attendees watch an AEE drone demonstration at the Las Vegas Convention Center.
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Where are all the women in economics?

by Marketplace Contributor
Oct 10, 2017
Only 15 percent of tenured faculty in economics are women — worse than in STEM fields. Why?
Clara Starrsjö is a second-year economics student at Cambridge University.
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'Pissing Pug' snubs 'The Fearless Girl' in defense of the bull

by Jana Kasperkevic
May 30, 2017
A bull, a girl and a pug walk into a town square ...
A statue of a pug appeared next to "The Fearless Girl" statue this Memorial Day.
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Long and short: women, wages and the workforce

by Hayley Hershman
May 19, 2017
Betting on the economy's big and small changes
U.S. Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen at the University of Michigan
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