Sentences with phrase «as number of female»

As the number of female graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and faculty grew, so did the need for a larger organization devoted to handling specific problems arising from gender issues.

Just 30 % of MPs are women and the number of male MPs today is the same as the number of female MPs in the 99 years since women won the right to vote.

Companies are now providing investors access to gender diversity criteria such as number of female employees, managers and board members; breadth and quality of programs addressing home / life balance; and gender parity / gender diversity.

Not exact matches

Progress has been slow when it comes to getting more women into executive roles (the number of female board members is climbing but just 13 percent of these female board members are employed as executives).

The number of women, African - Americans and Hispanics employed at companies such as Google, Facebook and Yahoo lag far behind the U.S. work force as a whole; meanwhile, only 3 percent of venture funding is earmarked for female founders, and founders of color claim less than 1 percent, according to U.S. chief technology officer Megan Smith.

As head of New York — based Catalyst, a global research and advisory organization, she wants to boost the number of female executives in C - suites and on corporate boards.

As more women hold lucrative positions, the number of female billionaires worldwide continues to increase: There are now 145 female billionaires, up from 22 in 1995.

Many women — some studies estimate this number is as high as one - third of all adult women — have a condition known as female hypoactive sexual desire disorder (HSDD).

The number of female billionaires in the world is up more than 12 % as a record 256 women made it on to the Forbes 2018 billionaires list, up from 227 last year.

As a female pastor for 14 years I've been discouraged by the growing trend of 20 - 30's who are going in huge numbers to churches that do not allow female pastors.

As the number of choices for gender identity proliferates, it's unclear why the difference between male and female should matter that much.

There are equal number of male and female in this country, minus off gays and lesbians, each man can only have a woman as wife, if not, there'll be not enough women to go around.

The point, which she apparently missed, is that Jesus extrapolated his position about limiting the number of partners in a sexual union to two based on the twoness of the sexes, «male and female,» which in turn establishes a male - female prerequisite as foundational.

And just as we no longer countenance slavery, which both Old and New Testaments regarded as normal, so we also no longer countenance the use of female slaves, concubines and captives as sexual toys or breeding machines by their male owners, which Leviticus 19:20 f., II Samuel 5:13 and Numbers 31:17 - 20 permitted — and as many American slave owners did slightly over 100 years ago.

And in every single instance this point is being made, it just simply gets ignored, as if it did not matter to a large number of females or parents.

Majority of those Palestinians were imprisoned when were underage for throwing stones during the upraiseds... many still as underaged prisoners... then there is the number of females who were imprisoned while not knowing for what...!!

A one - minute call made from the university - issued phone of Ole Miss football coach Hugh Freeze to a number associated with a female escort service was raised as a potential issue in the back - and - forth between the university's legal counsel and the attorney for former Rebels football coach Houston Nutt, according to records and correspondence obtained by USA TODAY Sports.

Part of me wonders if some of those numbers stem not from actual health but from the male / female stereotypes that start as soon as birth.

It also strikes me as problematic for a number of other reasons, mostly because it's hard enough living in a female body without another cultural concept floating around that makes other people feel like they're entitled to tell me what I should and shouldn't be doing with my own body.

Just over 50 per cent of the list are female and ten per cent are from ethnic minorities, while it also includes a number of minor celebrities such as author Louise Bagshawe and former Coronation Street actor Adam Rickitt.

One newspaper, looking to augment the number of female and young readers, regularly published violations concerning these particular demographics, at the expense of other vulnerable populations, such as the elderly or indigenous.

Mangano aides contend the sinking job - approval numbers are a result of a report that surfaced as the poll was conducted of an exchange of sexually suggestive texts between Mangano and a female county contractor.

Ms. Quinn's poll numbers have been falling, though, as she pursues her dream of becoming the city's first female and first openly gay mayor.

As an increasing number of women and mothers participate in the workforce, federal and state laws and policies have not met the needs of both male and female workers who must balance taking care of themselves and their families with the responsibilities of work.

No 10 sources later pointed out that the prime minister had the same number of female cabinet ministers as Gordon Brown, the last Labour prime minister.

In response, President Mahama, who extolled the school as gender - friendly because it has an encouraging number of female students with 740 girls and 690 boys, promised to satisfy the tractor proposal.

1 pm: Crunching the maths, FT Westminster blog looks at the current number of Labour women MPs and concludes: «By proposing that half the cabinet should be female, Harman is - ironically - suggesting that the Labour women MPs are twice as talented as the men.»

Conyers, who represented the Detroit area for 52 years, yielded to mounting pressure from Democratic leaders to step aside as a growing number of female former aides accused him of unwanted advances and mistreatment.

Speakers also pointed out that a number of bills pertaining to issues specifically affecting women, citing access to feminine hygiene products as an example, were introduced by female Council members.

Although progress is slow, the overall number of female chairs across the committee system has gradually increased due to a cohort effect, as the percentage of women in Parliament has increased.

It is certainly not an all male - club as the help - line in the daytime is run by a couple of dedicated women and the charity has a number of female directors including a Conservative councillor (Cllr Roz Willis — North Somerset).

But even preventing a small number of bites could have a huge impact because a female mosquito must engorge herself with a blood meal at least twice to transmit a disease such as malaria or dengue — once to contract the disease, and again to pass it along.

As on most campuses, the number of minority and female professors is substantially worse than bleak — in fact, I think it is abysmally shabby.

In that year China is expected to overtake Japan as the world's most aging society, and the number of working - age men without female counterparts will peak at 29 million (and that's assuming that the sex ratio at birth begins to drop tomorrow).

They found that the number of spines in the hypothalamic arcuate nucleus, an area of the brain known to be linked to female sexual behaviour, correlated with the amount of oestradiol injected into the rats, as did their behaviour.

They found that this unusual mating scenario led to an increase in the number of individuals that a female is related to in her group as she ages — a trend that favors younger breeders and older child - rearing helpers.

A disproportionate share of African - American and Hispanic males (as well as females) who received their S&E doctorates between 1995 and 1999 attended minority - serving institutions as undergraduates.1 Twenty - five percent of African Americans and 23 % of Hispanics receiving S&E doctorates received their bachelor's degrees at historically black colleges and universities and Hispanic - serving institutions, respectively.1 Minority - serving institutions overachieve in producing much higher numbers (of either sex) of minority S&E graduate success stories than majority institutions.

According to a report published today in the journal Nature, female cardinals learn the same number of songs as males in less than a third of the time.

The king used his secret power each breeding season to guarantee that exactly the right number of eggs would hatch as males and exactly the right number as females.

The researchers compared the bugs» armament — such as a male's ability to grasp a female, or a female's ability to wriggle away from a male — with the number of times the bugs mated.

Ami Radunskaya — a professor of mathematics at Pomona College, president - elect of the Association for Women in Mathematics, and director of the national Enhancing Diversity in Graduate Education (EDGE) Program — was chosen as the winner of the 2016 AAAS Mentor Award for launching «dramatic education and research changes leading to an increase in the number of female doctorates in the field of mathematics.»

In agreement with Fouts et al. (2012), the data presented here concurs that the different sexes have significantly different genera of bacteria present in their urine, different numbers of genera and that sequences in the main belong to the phylum Firmicutes for both male and female samples, as in the study by Siddiqui et al. (2011).

As a result, many adolescents developed anxiety disorders, with females reporting a greater number of PTSD symptoms than males.

However, I did obtain a number of female Z116A transgenic mice that were heterozygous for the myostatin mutation, and as shown in Table 1 and Figure 2a, these mice exhibited further increases in muscle weights compared to Z116A mice that were wild type for myostatin.

By mating with as many females as possible, males maximise the number of offspring they produce, and thus their chances of passing on their genes.

Approximately equal numbers of women and men enter and graduate from medical school in the United States and United Kingdom.1 2 In northern and eastern European countries such as Russia, Finland, Hungary, and Serbia, women account for more than 50 % of the active physicians3; in the United Kingdom and United States, they represent 47 % and 33 % respectively.4 5 Even in Japan, the nation in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development with the lowest percentage of female physicians, representation doubled between 1986 and 2012.3 6 However, progress in academic medicine continues to lag, with women accounting for less than 30 % of clinical faculty overall and for less than 20 % of those at the highest grade or in leadership positions.7 - 9 Understanding the extent to which this underrepresentation affects high impact research is critical because of the implicit bias it introduces to the research agenda, influencing future clinical practice.10 11 Given the importance of publication for tenure and promotion, 12 women's publication in high impact journals also provides insights into the degree to which the gender gap can be expected to close.

In recent years, the age when women have their first child has slowly increased, with the BFS highlighting how female fertility starts to decline from the late 20s as the number of eggs that women naturally have are progressively lost over time.

The change in sex ratio of snow leopards in Tost was accompanied by a potential decline in the number of cubs per female over the study period as the female population increased.

While you may thoroughly be enjoying your time spent on the cardio machines if your gym is populated by a number of 20 - something females in tight workout wear, you aren't burning up fat as you should be.

The «G» refers to Ernst Gräfenberg, MD, a German gynecologist who is credited with «discovering» it in the 1950s, and sex experts have long touted this area of female genitalia, which is believed to contain a large number of nerve endings, as the key to helping women achieve longer and stronger orgasm.