Company: DARE
Filing Date: 2025-04-24
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001401914-25-000014
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Company: Dare Bioscience, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-24
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 16
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) Directorship Certification credential in 2021. Our Board believes that Ms. Steele is qualified to serve on our Board due to her expertise in legal matters and corporate governance, her prior experience as general counsel of a public company and her involvement as a board member and advisor for a number of private life science companies.

2025 Proxy Statement | Page 9

### CORPORATE GOVERNANCE

#### Role of the Board of Directors
Our Board oversees and provides guidance for our business and affairs, and oversees our risk management process. Our Board also oversees the development of our strategy and business planning process and management’s implementation of them and oversees management.

#### Board Leadership Structure
The positions of Chair of our Board and Chief Executive Officer are separated. The Chair of our Board has authority, among other things, to call and preside over Board meetings, to set meeting agendas and to determine materials to be distributed to our directors. The Chair has substantial ability to shape the work of our Board. We believe that separation of the positions of chair and chief executive officer reinforces the independence of our Board in its oversight of our business and affairs. In addition, we believe that separation of the positions of chair and chief executive officer creates an environment that is more conducive to objective evaluation and oversight of management’s performance, increasing management accountability and improving the ability of our Board to monitor whether management’s actions are in our best interests and in the best interests of our stockholders. As a result, we believe that having the positions of chair and chief executive officer separated can enhance the effectiveness of our Board as a whole.

In addition, we have a separate chair for each committee of our Board. The chair of each committee is expected to report to our Board from time to time, or whenever so requested by our Board, on the activities of the committee he or she chairs in fulfilling its responsibilities as detailed in the committee's charter or specify any shortcomings should that be the case.

#### Director Independence
As required under the Nasdaq Stock Market (“Nasdaq”) listing standards, a majority of the members of a listed company’s board of directors must qualify as “independent,” as affirmatively determined by the board of directors. Our Board consults with our legal counsel to ensure that its determinations are consistent with relevant securities and other laws and regulations regarding the definition of “independent,” including those set forth in Nasdaq listing standards, as in effect from time to time. Consistent with these considerations, after review of all relevant identified transactions or relationships between each of our directors, or any of