Around the world, corporate issuers are rethinking the gender balance of their boards in response to pressure from investors and regulators. Yet in 2018, 65% of Brazil’s public company boards were still comprised entirely of [...]
Gender diversity in California boardrooms is already best practice. It could soon become the law of the land, after the State Senate approved a bill that includes the first boardroom gender quotas in the United [...]
Last week AFEP, the French Association of Large Companies, and MEDEF, the Movement of the Enterprises of France, released an updated version of their corporate governance code, which is followed by virtually all large- and [...]
In June 2017, the Securities and Exchange Board of India (“SEBI”) formed the Committee on Corporate Governance (the “Committee”) to examine corporate governance practices in India. Chaired by Uday Kotak, the Committee was also tasked [...]
Following the introduction of legal measures intended to increase the proportion of women in leadership positions in German publicly-listed companies, we looked at a snapshot of some of Germany's largest public companies at the time [...]
URBAN OUTFITTERS NASDAQ: URBN Annual Meeting: 6/02/2015 For proponents of board gender diversity, Urban Outfitters Inc. has been a source of particular concern in recent years. The clothing and home goods retailer, whose products [...]
Women are rising to the highest levels of government in many countries, advancing to executive ranks at top corporations, and earning more undergraduate and advanced degrees than men. Women’s employment rates held up better than [...]