“Remember the ladies,” future First Lady Abigail Adams implored her husband, John, in March 1776 as the Continental Congress was crafting the U.S. Constitution.

“All men would be tyrants if they could,” she wrote. “If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice or representation.”

Get Ready: Make The Right Move To The Boardroom With These Tips

Shannon Gordon, CEO of theBoardlist, told a group of close to 75 women board of directors hopefuls at a recent Chicago “Board Essentials for Women” event at PNC Bank Illinois, that you better be sure you know what you are signed up to do, because your commitment to a board needs to last.

Change LeadershipMichele WeldonDecember 3, 2018gender equality, Leadership, leadership parity, Michele Weldon, women on boardsComment

Open Season on Open Seats: Making Progress With Women Leaders on Boards

Change LeadershipMichele WeldonJanuary 5, 2018gender equality, Leadership, leadership parity, Michele Weldon, women on boardsComment

All On Boards: Efforts Increase To Place Women Leaders On Corporate Boards

One of the problems is the pipeline.

That’s according to Holly Copeland, director of public affairs and corporate social responsibility at Horizon Pharma. She is on a mission as advisory board member of Matter to “help connect women candidates with large public boards.”

Changing the Power Par...Michele WeldonSeptember 12, 2017Career, equality, Leadership, Michele Weldon, women on boardsComment

5 Steps For Women in Corporate Leadership To Be On A Board By 30

In December 2011, Hearsay Social Founder & CEO Clara Shih at age 29 was elected to the Starbucks board of directors. Boards of public, private, and non-profit organizations are not just for older individuals. The survival of these organizations depends on having input from younger generations, which comprises both their customers and their employees.

4 More: Adding Women to Corporate Boards Progress Toward Women Leadership Equity Goal

According to data from S&P Global Market Intelligence, 24 Fortune 500 companies had no women on their boards as of March 2016. The bad news is that the majority of these 24 companies have failed to do anything about this problem, despite the attention the women on boards issue has received lately.

Career successOlga MackOctober 6, 2016gender parity, progress, women in the workplace, women leaders, women on boardsComment

Apple: Leadership Diversity Is Such a Pain

With only two non-white members on its eight-person board of directors, Apple, Inc.’s diversity problem isn’t quite on the level of the 2016 Oscars, but it definitely has room for improvement.

Julianne HelinekJanuary 17, 2016driving change, leadership parity, Take The Lead This Week, women on boardsComment

Women’s Leadership and Financial Performance: More Good News

Investment research firm MSCI has analyzed the 2,400 companies in its World Index and concluded the same thing as everyone else: companies with more women in leadership perform better financially.

Gender-Diverse Boards Perform Better - A Lot Better

If your organization has an all-male board, chances are you’re leaving a ton of money on the table. A study of publicly traded companies in the US, UK, and India found that companies with at least one woman on the board outperform companies with all-male boards in every region.

Looking for a Woman Board Candidate? There's a List for That

Achieving board diversity for tech companies just got a lot easier. Joyus CEO Sukhinder Singh Cassidy announced the launch of the BoardList, a database for female tech board candidates, at the Fortune Brainstorm Tech conference in Aspen last week.

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