Twelve states now have proxy voting policies for their pension plans to permit the targeting of companies with few or no female directors, according to Calvert Investments.

Over 50 retired or soon-to-retire military officials attended a three-day NACD event recently to learn how to utilize their skill set in board governance.

GMI report notes small increase in women on boards in the United States.

"One year ago, I asked companies to voluntarily increase women's presence on corporate boards. However, I regret to see that despite our calls, self-regulation so far has not brought about satisfactory results." -- EU Justice Commissioner Viviane Reding

The Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development's new Gender Browser shows that women occupied only one in ten board seats at OCED-listed companies in 2009.

The European Commission noted that only two dozen companies in the past year have signed a pledge to ensure that 30 percent of board seats are held by women by 2015.

Former U.K. Trade Minister Lord Davies has spoken out against boardroom gender diversity quotas.

Tennessee ranks last among U.S. states in the population of women on public company boards, occupying just 8.1 percent of board seats.

Ford Motor Co. was listed among 29 of America's Top Corporations for Women's Business Enterprises by Women's Business Enterprise Council.

U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron has called upon companies to include more women in boardrooms or face quota requirements.

A volatile business environment and increased regulations create specific challenges for which boards must prepare.

General (Ret.) Hugh Shelton on his transition from battlefield to boardroom service, and his candid assessment of the war in Iraq, Guantanamo, Iran and American leadership.

A new Catalyst report finds that companies with three or more women directors performed better financially than those with none between 2004 and 2008.

Women make up 55 percent of credit union CEOs, in contrast to 2.5 percent in the American finance and insurance industries.

NACD has launched a program to educate generals and admirals for membership on boards of directors.

Lisa Dimonte, founder and CEO of MyLegal.com is one of those women who make the rest of us ask how does she do it all?

Only 9.3 percent of director seats at Florida's top 100 public companies were held by women in 2011, finds a new survey released by Women Executive Leadership.

Hewlett-Packard CEO Meg Whitman recently lamented that the number of females being appointed to senior boardrooms has plateaued.

Pamela A. Gibbs, former director of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission Office of Diversity and Inclusion, will lead the SEC's Office of Minority and Women Inclusion.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that nearly 1.28 million men found jobs in the past year, while only 600,000 women gained employment.