About Us
Our mission.
Bring gender parity to the highest levels of business.
What we do.
We advocate for women’s representation at the highest levels of business—in the C-Suite and on the Board of Directors. We do this by promoting companies that demonstrate their commitment to gender parity, raising awareness about underlying issues, and providing facts and research that show the value in equal representation. We ask companies to take the ParityPledge™ to commit to simply interview at least one qualified woman for every open seat, VP and higher—including the C-Suite and the Board.
Proof It Works!
The NFL Rooney Rule, named after Dan Rooney, owner of the Pittsburgh Steelers and champion for equal representation, is a National Football League policy that requires league teams to interview qualified minority candidates for head coaching and senior football management roles.
There are no quotas, no deadlines. Just interview them. As a result of the rule, minorities in the senior ranks of the NFL increased from 6% to 22% in just three years.
Why We Do This:
World Economic Forum 2017, The Global Gender Gap Report
When women are better represented in leadership roles, more women are hired throughout the company. This ensures that there is a sufficient pipeline of female talent at more junior levels for future leadership roles.
Lean-In & McKinsey, 2017, Women in the Workplace
On average, women are promoted and hired at lower rates than men; so, far fewer women become senior leaders. At more senior levels, we see women shift from line to staff roles, so very few end up on the path to becoming CEO.
McKinsey 2017, Women Matter
Corporations need to ensure that their recruitment and appraisal systems are gender-neutral and performance focused. Corporate culture is twice as important as individual mindsets in building women's' confidence that they can reach top management positions.
Peterson Institute 2016, Is Gender Diversity Profitable?
Female executives are correlated with higher profits. A company with 30% female leadership could see an increase of 15% in profitability compared to a similar company with no female leadership.
MSCI 2016, Women on Boards and Financial Performance
Having at least three women on a corporate board is tied to improved financial performance in terms of Return on Equity (ROE) and Earnings per Share (EPS) compared to similar boards with no female representation.
Parity.org and the ParityPledge™.
At Parity.org, we ask companies to commit to take the ParityPledge™ because the research is very clear. When qualified women are simply interviewed for open executive or board roles, something very good happens. More often, they are hired!
Take the ParityPledge™ now.
To improve the lives of women everywhere and, at the same time, improve the bottom line.
take the paritypledge™The Parity.org Team
The Parity.org team is a small group of individuals dedicated to raising the representation of women at the highest levels in organizations.
Cathrin M Stickney
Founder & CEO
Lauren Burch
Director of Communications
Jennifer Curry
Director, Analytics & Insights
Jessie Laurash
Director, Content
Ashley Nance
Legal Counsel, Sidley Austin
Method Communications
Social Media Strategy & Execution
The Parity.org Board of Directors
Mark Gorenberg
Managing Director
Zetta Venture Partners
Mark Gorenberg
Managing Director
Mark has been in venture capital for more than 25 years. His firm, Zetta Venture Partners, is not only committed to gender parity; but is the first firm to include a no-sexual harassment clause in all of their term sheets.
Josh James
Founder & CEO
Domo
Josh James
Founder & CEO
Josh founded Domo in 2010 to help CEOs and other leaders change the way they do business and obtain value from the tens of billions of dollars spent on traditional business intelligence systems. Before founding Domo, Josh was the CEO of Omniture, which he co-founded in 1996 and took public in 2006; and from 2006-2009, he was the youngest CEO of a publicly traded company.
Amy Kennedy
Education Director
Kennedy Forum
Amy Kennedy
Kennedy Forum
Amy L. Kennedy is currently the Education Director for The Kennedy Forum, providing consultation services that emphasize evidence-based research and programming to facilitate policy change in the areas of education and mental health. She also sits on the Board of Mental Health America, a leading national advocacy organization based in the Washington, DC area, focused on giving a voice to all people with mental health conditions and addictions.
Carolyn Magill
CEO
Aetion
Carolyn Magill
CEO
Ms. Magill has been an operations leader at major healthcare companies like United Healthcare, Evolent and Remedy. She is now CEO at Aetion.
Cathrin M Stickney
Founder & CEO
Parity.org
Cathrin M Stickney
Founder & CEO
Cathrin has been a healthcare executive and a women’s advocate for more than 25 years; helping with the careers of hundreds of women in management during that time. She started Parity.org to shed light on the issue of gender imbalance in business and correct it.View LinkedIn
“We must raise both the ceiling and the floor.”
—Sheryl Sandberg, Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead
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Account Associate
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Assistant Designer
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Director of Communications
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Coordinator
Ralph Lauren
Program Manager
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President & CEO
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Recruiting Director
BMGI
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Adobe
Digital Marketing Manager
Fluid Advertising
Managing Director
B-Rad Industries, LLC
SVP Product Development
Health Catalyst
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Business Operation Manager
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Sales Lead
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Managing Director
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Director Engineering, Information Systems
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Managing Director
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Internal Audit Manager
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Chief Legal and Administrative Officer
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Recruiting Director
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Economics Partners, LLC
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Ralph Lauren
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Teem
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Capshare
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Tempus Adventus Advisory
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National Stock Exchange of Australia
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247Solar
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Teem Technologies
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Systems Engineer
Workfront
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Territory Manager
Veeam Software
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Centeva
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Tealium
CHRO
BMGI
Senior Digital Marketing Manager
Evelar Solar
Vice President, Human Resources
Advisor Group
CEO/Talent Agent
Hadassah Group LLC
Creative Director
Teem
VP Finance
Pelion Venture Partners
Student
Utah State University MHR
VP of Products and Operation
Florence Healthcare
Account Executive
Alpha
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Alberleen
Partner Development
TEEM
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Manager of Product Development
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Vivint
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Carta
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CEO
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Lyft
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Pro Voice Movement for Women
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Adobe
Founder / Owner
LGBT Financial
Student
Snow College
Managing Director, HRIS
Charles Schwab
Marketing Manager
CenturyLink
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Enterprise Account Executive
Teem
TA Manager
Vivint Smart Home
Analyst
Overstock
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BYU
Content Manager
Teem
Director of Communications
LDS Church
writer
Rhett Wilkinson
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Artemis Staffing
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Contravent
Executive Assistant
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Cake Technology
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Acknowledgements
Parity.org would like to thank Josh James and the Domo team for their early collaboration on the Parity.org model and for creating this awesome website.
Parity.org would like to thank Patrick Kennedy and The Kennedy Forum for their generous donation of our URL: Parity.org—thus giving us our great name.
