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With the LGBTQ population’s annual spending power estimated in the hundreds of billions, companies don’t want to get left behind. “They’re all very competitive,” says one marketing consultant.
Women are more likely to be appointed to powerful positions when an organization is in crisis, putting their leadership into question, say Caryl Rivers and Rosalind C. Barnett in this excerpt from “The New Soft War on Women.”
Which corporations are financing whose campaigns? What are their political surrogates saying about Planned Parenthood and rape? Should we boycott? After 2012 these are big civil rights questions for women to consider.
European countries have been following the lead of Norway and instituting quotas for women on corporate boards. Nele Feldmann says Germany should follow suit and demand more from companies than voluntary promises.
Women are scarce on the corporate boards of leading companies; just 15 percent. As shareholders and networkers we can apply financial and social pressure to change that.