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Getting Women On Boards: LifeSci Advisors' After-Party Mission Is Valued - But Achieving Results Is Hard

 
• By Eleanor Malone

LifeSci Advisors has thrown its back into getting more women on boards, and its efforts have been praised. However, with just 13 women placed in a year and a half, the task is not an easy one.  

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The public condemnation of LifeSci Advisors' employment of female models at its now-notorious cocktail party during the J.P. Morgan conference of 2016 led to the Damascene conversion of founding partner Mike Rice. Turning his back on sexist social events, Rice formed an alliance with venture capitalist Kate Bingham after she co-authored a public rebuke to the biotech communications advisory firm. He is now committed to promoting women's representation in biotech boardrooms.

Scrip caught up with Rice and Bingham to find out what LifeSci Advisors has achieved since it gave up recruiting...

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