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«Sony Pictures Classics Q&A: «It's the Year of Women at Sundance»»: Sony Pictures Classics co-presidents Tom Bernard and Michael Barker chat with Variety's Brent Lang.

Every year I always seem to hear that it's the year of women at the Oscars.

Not exact matches

The move is especially pertinent to Cannes as mega-producer Harvey Weinstein, the catalyst of the #MeToo movement, was accused of assaulting women at the festival in previous years.

«I'm working to create a space where it feels easy to include and imagine black girls and make black girls like me the main characters of our lives,» Dias said at Forbes» Women Summit in New York City last year.

Last year a woman who had an ovary frozen at the age of 13 gave birth after doctors used the tissue to restore her fertility.

At 23, she became the first woman to become Yachtmaster of the Year, awarded by HRH Princess Royal in recognition of Penn's skills and expertise as a skipper.

Women are starting businesses at twice the rate of men, and in 25 years, the U.S. will be a «majority minority» country.

Advantagewa, an award - winning program aimed at bridging the gap between university and the business world, has earned its creator, Tracey Hodgkins, the 2005 Telstra WA Business Woman of the Year award.

Joe Segel, founder of QVC, last year co-founded dual customized hair care brands: HairRx, aimed at middle - aged women, and Millennial - oriented Cloud 10.

At the current rate of progress in closing the gap, states the report, «women will not receive pay equity until the year 2119.»

At the White House's first United States of Women Summit in 2016, Buffett confessed that he only thought to put a woman on the Berkshire Hathaway board in 2003 — nearly 40 years after taking over the company — by the suggestion of his wife Susie.

Comparing full - time, year - round workers, women earn 77 cents for every dollar men earn, said Dana Britton, director of the Center for Women and Work at Rutgers University in Newark, women earn 77 cents for every dollar men earn, said Dana Britton, director of the Center for Women and Work at Rutgers University in Newark, Women and Work at Rutgers University in Newark, N.J..

And for those of you keeping score at home, women got the the right to vote 97 years ago.

At only 25 - years - old, award - winning producer and founder of Black Bicycle Entertainment, Erika Olde is one of the youngest and most successful women in Hollywood.

The under - representation of women at this year's World Economic Forum in Davos has been one of the more obvious elephants in the room.

From summer intern to CEO, Burns became the first black woman CEO of a Fortune 500 company in 2009, after 29 years at Xerox.

«To honor Barbara Bush as a commencement speaker is to honor a woman who has gained recognition through the achievements of her husband, which contravenes what we have been taught over the last four years at Wellesley.»

A look at the life of a Southern black woman (Whoopi Goldberg) over 40 years directed by Steven Spielberg received 11 Oscar nominations but didn't win a single one.

In fact she's afraid not to: «Never love something so much that you can't let go of it,» she said at Fortune «s Most Powerful Woman Summit last year.

When tech entrepreneur Kieran Snyder analyzed performance reviews done by a diverse group of managers at a variety of companies a few years ago, she found that constructive feedback given to women included strong elements of «negative personality criticism» that were all but absent from the suggestions for men.

In Malawi, for example, which had the highest business closure rate in the world, women shuttered businesses at a rate of 30 percent over the past two years, compared to about 25 percent for men.

The Telstra Business Woman of the Year in each state and territory becomes eligible to win the 2005 Telstra Australian Business Woman of the Year Award at the national Awards ceremony in Melbourne on 22 October 2005.

A report that year from the American Petroleum Institute, the industry's trade group, found that women accounted for 17 % of the workforce at oil, natural gas and petrochemical companies.

Phin Barnes, a partner at First Round Capital and an investor in startup Modern Fertility, says the number of pitches he sees from companies addressing women's health care has increased about 10 times in the past five years.

By 2015, eight years into her tenure as the bank's chief human resources officer, women held two - fifths of those roles at RBC and visible minorities, 16 %.

Women's Summit in New York City on Monday, was the head of business development at Rent the Runway for eight years, helping guide the startup to $ 100 million in revenue in 2016.

About two years ago, the attorney at law firm Cooley took over as chair of the Partnership Nominating Committee, and the numbers weren't inspiring when it came to women's progress.

In 2013, the most recent year for which data are available, the government reports roughly 37 percent of men and 42 percent of women claimed Social Security at age 62.

The article, written by Sabrina Rubin Erdely, gave a detailed account of an alleged 2012 gang rape that a woman identified as «Jackie» said had endured at the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity house as a first - year student, and accused the university of tolerating a culture that ignored sexual violence against women.

The club Lee and her peers belong to is a small one: fewer than 6 % of all decision - markers at U.S. venture capital firms were women last year, according to a Fortune analysis.

Acumen's lead screener, a 25 - year - old woman with a great personality and impeccable phone demeanor, goes after people at the top of organizations.

In particular Women who vacationed at least two times per year were less likely to suffer from depression and had decreased levels of stress.

New York has the smallest pay gap at 11 %, with full - time, year - round women over 25 there making a median salary of $ 47,358, while men make $ 53,124.

«While women still make up less than 20 percent of U.S. boards on average, movement toward greater gender parity is evident with the proportion of new nominees that are women nearly doubling over the past seven years at larger firms,» Kamonjoh said in a statement.

This gap is slowly closing, as data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics show that women with children now make slightly more than women without kids under 18 at home, which wasn't the case a year ago.

Sandi MacPherson, who founded the online community Quibb, started working last year with tech conference organizers to help recruit women to fill at least half of the speaking slots.

«Thousands of years of men innovating society and a single generation where women start to do better (in school and so forth) and rather than looking at the big picture, we're free to generalize, so long as those generalizations are harmful only to men.»

A few years earlier on the speaking circuit, she had been at yet another dinner event, feeling a bit overwhelmed as a young Asian woman in a sea of suits, when she spotted another misfit — a middle - aged man in cargo pants, with wildish hair tucked under a sideways baseball cap.

Since launching Bioastra in 2008, she's grown her business from a one - woman operation to a team of 17 whiz - bang inventor - types; together, they've increased sales by 906 % in the last five years, landing the business at No. 82 on the 2017 PROFIT 500 ranking of Canada's Fastest - Growing Companies.

«I have the utmost respect and deepest appreciation for the young women who bravely volunteer to serve our country, but I am adamantly opposed to coercing America's daughters to sign up for the Selective Service at 18 years of age,» Sessions said in a statement.

When Thakore met Sopik and Nashmi six years ago at the Canadian Women Entrepreneur Awards, she knew they had the focus and determination of a Best Managed company.

Notably, mentioned one source, when Shari was honored by the USO of Metropolitan New York in April at the group's annual woman of the year luncheon, Dauman and Shari's mother — Sumner's first wife — Phyllis were in attendance, but not Sumner.

Still, such history may be reflected in the fact that there are few women among State Street's top leaders, most of whom began their careers at least 20 years ago.

According to a study by TechCrunch last year, 7 percent of partners at the top 100 VC firms are women.

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At the time, Smith was only addressing the underrepresentation of women, who comprised less than a third of all speaking characters in the 100 top - grossing movies in the previous year.

Incidents of misconduct by Rose were far more numerous than previously known, according to an investigation by The Washington Post, which also found three occasions over a period of 30 years in which CBS managers were warned of his conduct toward women at the network.

Its hiring of women remains at a standstill at 32 % after two years and the ride - hailing business hadn't promoted black people within its leadership ranks either.

Bryan Goldberg and Kate Ward's publication for women announced at the end of last year that it now sees 20 million monthly readers, up from 10 million last July.