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Question one: A recent study has shown that mandatory diversity hurts shareholders, in particular, on boards of directors. Please answer the following: a. b. c. d. e. f. g. Do you believe that women are still heavily under represented in corporate leadership positions in the US and elaborate on your response? Show data. What is CA Senate Bill number 826? When and why was it signed? Define gender quotas. What are the pluses and minuses of gender quotas? Please describe the issue in detail. Some studies have shown that stock prices drop in anticipation of more female directors being appointed? Please discuss and describe this phenomenon. What is the purpose and function of the Corporate Women Directors International group? Which Countries have responded by adopting mandatory board quotas. Data is now becoming available showing the results of this movement. Please describe and discuss these results in detail. In your opinion, should there be quotas on boards? Why or why not. Please provide detailed explanation of your opinions. Question Two: The US spends approximately 18% of GDP on health care, far and above other developed countries. As the 2020 presidential election begins to unfold, the democrats almost uniformly have called for Medicare for all, government run healthcare and other large scale and expensive potential ideas to solve the healthcare issue. Please answer the following: a. b. c. d. e. f. How do Americans, in general, feel about the current state of healthcare in this country? Please show data to support your answer. What, specifically, is Obamacare? Be specific on your outline and describe the cost to the US taxpayer. Is the health care crisis in this country self-imposed? Explain. Describe what Medicare for All would entail, its cost, its potential effectiveness. Do you support this idea? Why or why not? How does reversion to the mean apply to the health care sector? In your opinion, what would be the opportunities and the dangers in the health care sector moving forward? Choose 4 stocks, two being opportunities and two being dangers, and describe in detail each. Question Three: Marijuana stocks have been a focus in the marketplace for the past several years as the laws in the US and other countries begin to change. Please answer the following: a. Marijuana companies have shown strong growth but face a mounting number of obstacles, both financial and political. Specifically, analyze the Safe Banking Act and the States Act. How do they impact the marijuana industry? Explain and describe these issues. b. Analyze the following companies: Tilray, Canopy and Aurora Cannabis. Why is Aurora trading at a discount to the other two? c. Canada has a strict policy on the marketing of marijuana. Describe what this entails and how it could impact marijuana stocks and sales. d. What are the fundamental issues for marijuana stocks in the US and Canada? According to some analysts, there are too many companies and the industry is fragmented. Describe in detail how this will impact the sector moving forward. Question four: The S and P 500 is up almost 15% this year. Please answer the following: a. What are the fundamental reasons for this performance? Please outline and explain each. b. Moving forward, some are saying that the bull market can continue. What would be the variables that might allow this to occur? Describe in detail your opinions and analysis. c. The S and P just had its best first quarter in over 100 years. Describe some ways that an investor can hedge the bull market. Please be specific in your ideas. d. Recently, the Yield Curve went inverted and alarmed many market technicians and economists. It has since reverted to its normal trajectory. Explain what an inverted yield curve is and why economists get alarmed when this occurs? Rules: 2. 5 pages per question. Graphs and charts allowed but limited to 20% of each question. Double spaced. Please answer the questions in sequential order and list accordingly. Reference page on back and this does not count towards page count. Spelling, structure, punctuation, grammar and of course content, all matter. Please provide comprehensive details on all questions.
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Underrepresentation of women in leadership
I passionately believe that in the US, women are still heavily underrepresented in
corporate leadership positions in the US. From the recent report given by the CWDI, the
percentage of women directors has merely increased by 0.5% within the past 14 years which
has amounted to about 26.3% in last year. If this rate stays the same every year, then it might
take almost half a century to gain gender parity in the US corporate boards. This is also
evident from the fact that over the previous year, there have been many firsts in the fortune
500. The first Latina CEO, the first well known lesbian CEO and the first Black female CEO
of the NBA franchise. Also, despite the various women leadership, there haven't been a lot of
good-byes in their leadership positions. Good examples can be extracted from Margo
Georgiadis of Mattel, Indra Nooyi of Pepsi, Irene Rosenfeld of Mondelez and Denise
Morrison of Campbell Soup Company who was dropped from the top spot of their respective
companies and replaced by men. Additionally, the data collected by Catalyst, from 2009 to
date, shows that men have replaced just three females after leaving their top spot positions
(Carter and Peters, 2016). Besides, only 22 women CEO are available in the fortune 500
indexes, and there is no black woman amongst them.

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CA Senate Bill number 826

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CA Senate Bill number 826 is the proposed law that addresses the lack of female
representatives on the board of directors within various companies in the US. The bill was
introduced on the consideration that one-fourth of the public companies in California only
have male directors. The Bill was signed on 30th September 2018 by the Californian
Governor Jerry Brown, as a pioneering law that would mandate the headquarters of each
publicly held company in California to have at least woman on its board of directors. The law
purposely was to address the insufficiency of female representation on the board of directors
within the Californian companies.
Gender Quotas
Gender quotas are real measurement instruments which target at enhancing the
development of gender-balanced representation and participation by creating an elaborated
proportion or number of seats to be allocated to men and women under specific criteria. Some
of the pluses on gender quotas are that it creates the most effective technique of gaining a
better gender balance. The quotas also give a chance to voters so that they can be able to elect
men and women rather than the limit on the freedom of choice. On the other side, the quotas
come with the certain disadvantages one being they can distort the representation idea and
work against women. Also, the women elected by legal quotas tend to be less respected and
have less power which makes most women fear being elected through quotas.
Drop in stock prices
Various studies have shown that companies having a high number of females on its
board of directors tend to have high metrics like return on investment, return on equity and
return on sales. Though, looking specifically at the impact of having women at corporate
directorships tells that the performance in stocks tends to worsen immediately when there is
an increase in gender diversity in the company. As discussed by a group of researchers
spearheaded by Fran Dobbin, a Harvard sociologist, the cause of this reduction in the stock

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prices is due to an adverse effect on stock-prices and bias from the investors (Adams and
Ferreira, 2009). These gender biases affect stock prices.
The purpose and function of the Corporate Women group
CWDI group is a project of the global summit of...


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