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Amazon Vows To Include Women, Minorities Inwards Board Search (Amzn)

The headline even is a calendar month onetime but it only came upward inwards conversation.

Anybody else cry upward this from 2017:

Somehow missed this one: "Uber, Seeking a Female CEO....
...has narrowed the listing to 3 men.
The headline even is a calendar month onetime but it only came upward inwards conversation Amazon Vows to Include Women, Minorities inwards Board Search (AMZN)

The project went to Dara Khosrowshahi.
The headline even is a calendar month onetime but it only came upward inwards conversation Amazon Vows to Include Women, Minorities inwards Board Search (AMZN)

And together with so at that spot was the fourth dimension the behaviour of 1 of the guys on the Shitty Media Men List resulted inwards the firing of precisely 1 additional person, the woman individual caput of human resources.
The guy's (and therefore the company's) mention escapes me, it powerfulness direct keep been Matt Lauer, I'll brand inquiries together with written report back.

From Barron's, May 14:

In a world filing on Monday, the e-commerce giant vowed to expand the puddle of candidates. Three of the company's 10 board members are women.
Amazon.com (AMZN) says it volition brand to a greater extent than of an endeavor to include women together with minorities inwards hereafter board searches.

In a world filing on Monday, the e-commerce together with cloud-computing giant vowed to expand its puddle of candidates. Three of the company's 10 board members are women. [Women contain close 20% of board members of Fortune 500 companies, upward from 17% a twelvemonth ago.]

Amazon made the change, outlined inwards its commission charters, next complaints from a grouping of shareholders led past times CtW Investment Group as good as SEIU Master Trust close a lack of diverseness on Amazon's board together with alongside its executives. The shareholders proposed inwards a missive of the alphabet concluding calendar month that Amazon adopt the so-called "Rooney Rule" from the National Football League that requires teams to interview ethnic-minority candidates for caput coaching together with senior football game operations positions.
Amazon's board initially opposed the proposal but reversed its opinion "after listening to [Congressional Black Caucus] feedback besides every bit that from Amazon employees, shareholders, together with other stakeholders close the Board diverseness proposal." Brian Huseman, Amazon's vice president of world policy, wrote to the CBC, according to Recode....MORE

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