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Facebook Adds COO Sandberg To Board As First Female Director
“Our goal has always been and Facebook’s goal ought to be gender parity,” in part because the company’s success relies on the participation of women, said Shaunna Thomas, co-founder of UltraViolet. “They have a great opportunity to demonstrate that women should have a seat at these tables.”
Sandberg is first woman on Facebook board
The appointment, announced on Monday, only somewhat appeased UltraViolet, a women’s rights advocacy group which delivered a petition signed by 53,000 people to Facebook in April, urging the company to diversify its board. “It is a good first step,” said Shaunna Thomas, co-founder of UltraViolet. “Until today, the board was all male, but it continues to be all white.”
Facebook names Sandberg to board
Ultraviolet, a group that has been asking Facebook to add women to its board, said its campaign “should have never been necessary.”
Facebook Adds COO Sandberg to Board as First Female Director
UltraViolet, a women’s rights organization, said that while Sandberg’s appointment represents progress, the company shouldn’t end with a single female director.
UltraViolet Says Facebook Appointing Sandberg To Board Is ‘Good Start’
UltraViolet, a gender quality nonprofit that for months called for Facebook to appoint a woman member to its corporate board of directors, has given muted applause to the appointment of Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg to the company’s board on Monday.
Facebook Protesters Demand Social Network Add Women To All-Male Board
NEW YORK — Protesters swarmed the entrance to Facebook’s Madison Avenue offices in New York City on Wednesday to deliver a petition with 53,000 signatures asking the world’s largest social network to add women to its all-male board ahead of its public offering.
Will Facebook Finally Put a Woman on Its Board?
Here’s a status update Facebook probably won’t be happy about: Several dozen feminist activists are descending on the company’s Manhattan office to protest that not one woman sits on Facebook’s board of directors.
Women’s Rights Advocates Demand Facebook Appoint Women to Board
Women represent 58% of Facebook’s user base, yet no women sit on its board of directors — and 58,000 people have a problem with that. That’s the number of petitions being delivered to Facebook’s New York City office Wednesday afternoon. A protest is also scheduled outside of Facebook’s HQ on Madison Ave to demand the company put women on its board before the company goes public within the next few months.
Facebook All But Ignores Protesters at New York Headquarters
NEW YORK, NY – The handful of protesters that gathered in front of Facebook’s office on Madison Avenue at noon was disappointed when the company refused to accept a petition signed by 53,000 users asking the company to include women on its board of directors.
Protest outside Facebook’s New York Office [GALLERY]
The majority of Facebook users are women–58%–and yet they have no voice on the social network’s board.
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