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US corporate gender diversity is improving very slowly

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US

However, above-trend retirement rates among older white-collar male employees because of the pandemic, the tightness of labour markets for professionals and stakeholder pressures…

Investors will step up corporate governance monitoring

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INTERNATIONAL

Corporate governance.

The US Fed is coming under greater political scrutiny

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UNITED STATES

If confirmed, the appointments would increase diversity on the Board at a time when the stock trading activities of some members have raised questions. While these should quickly…

#MeToo will sustain demands for US corporate diversity

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US

That turned the eleven-year-old MeToo movement into a central pillar of a broader drive in the United States to address gender, race and social inequality. Since then, the…

US states are taking more action on the use of ESG

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UNITED STATES

Republican states wanting to stall ESG practices are passing legislation limiting their use by financial services firms such as asset managers and banks. However, resultant…

Activist US shareholders face squeeze

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UNITED STATES

The SEC had wanted to reform its proxy system, which is decades old, for years. President Donald Trump's administration has pressed the SEC to restrict the scope for shareholder…

Latin America's management gender parity will be slow

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LATIN AMERICA

Women's representation in management and company boards.

More US states to contest corporate diversity efforts

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UNITED STATES

Some 15 Republican states have passed or are considering legislation to ban or limit DEI programmes at institutions receiving state funding, including universities and colleges…

Critical race theory will fuel US political divisions

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UNITED STATES

CRT has become a new line of division between Democrats and civil rights reformers, for whom it accurately describes embedded racism, and some Republicans who regard it as an…

ESG push will help improve diversity in US companies

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UNITED STATES

Policy, disclosure requirements and stakeholder pressures, particularly from investors, push them in that direction. The exception is diversity and inclusion, which form part of…