Tarang Amin
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that have a board that's over two-thirds women, 44% diverse.
But the fact is, we don't want to be one of only five public companies in the US with that level of diversity.
So we believe business has a role for societal good.
So we started this initiative of increasing diversity
on America's corporate boards by partner with Billie Jean King, serving out basic facts of just how homogenous the boards, America's boards were.
We took it a step further.
That campaign, that provocative campaign, we ran on like Wall Street at the Oculus.
You know,
Featured a bunch of pictures, a bunch of white dudes, and the line was, and the insight is, there are more men named Richard, Rick, or Dick on America's corporate boards than entire groups of underrepresented populations.
And by the way, by the way, there's nothing wrong with being Richard, Rick, or Dick.
I want to make sure people know that for the record.
We just want to make room for others.
And then, you know, we take it a step further.
We partner with the National Association of Corporate Directors.
We've sponsored 40 women and diverse members through their Accelerate program to qualify for board service.
We partner with NCA&T University.
Research to show the direct correlation of diversity and better corporate board performance, including I think the latest research they published showed that boards with above average gender diversity outperform boards with below average gender diversity by a whopping 270%.
return on equity.
And they did this over a six or seven year period.
And so I think it's an important time where there's so much rhetoric out there to let the facts be out there.