Just 6% of S&P 500 companies have a woman CEO, according to a new report assessing the country’s top public companies on measures of workplace equality as of this past March. That makes the 40 chief executives named Michael or James more common than the 31 women CEOs, found the …
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Maria Negrete-Gruson, manager of the Artisan Sustainable Emerging Markets Fund. Can doing well in the stock market be as simple as making sure you have a lot of women fund managers working for you? I’m skeptical, because it’s always dangerous to embrace generalities about demographic groups, flattering or pejorative. But …
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Bill Burr Getty Images “I’ll probably get cancelled.” Yes, Bill Burr saw the backlash coming early in his opening monologue on “Saturday Night Live.” In retrospect, it wasn’t really all that hard to be so prophetic, considering his material touched on everything from wearing masks and assault to gay pride …
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The financial hurdles women confront to attain financial security in retirement can be colossal, as a Senate Special Committee on Aging hearing last week validated bluntly. The hearing entitled, “Women and Retirement: Unique Challenges and Opportunities to Pave a Brighter Future” focused on the barriers that women face in planning …
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A century after winning the right to vote and in the midst of a pandemic, female fund managers are outperforming their male colleagues on Wall Street. That is according to a team of equity strategists at Goldman Sachs, who crunched the numbers in honor of 2020, which marks the 100th …
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Sometimes they approach with a smile. Other times, it’s with the rage of angels. About four months ago, Terence Fitzgerald, and his two sons, who are 5 and 3 years old, were on a weekend bike ride in his neighborhood, a quiet suburb in Southern California with picturesque houses situated …
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“ “I have never been in a more hostile, manipulative, passive-aggressive environment … and I worked in politics.” ” That’s Julia Payne, a former vice president of communications with Washington, D.C.’s, NFL team, quoted in a Washington Post report late Thursday describing a “nightmare” workplace for women amid a team …
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As my brain tried processing the incompressible death of George Floyd, I filtered it through the lens of my 25 years of urban policing, and the recurring theme I continued circling to, was that of police culture. I wasn’t the only cop grappling with what I saw. My social media pages …
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