Sentences with phrase «as their male counterparts»

Women entrepreneurs were as highly educated as their male counterparts, had the same early interest in starting their own businesses, and had learned the same valuable lessons from their work experience and from prior successes and failures.

It's for the same reason that they're not controlling as much crucial real estate in the fields of sports, medicine, finance and law as their male counterparts.

To recognize that women of color have to work — on average — eight months longer to earn the same as their male counterparts do in one year.

In other words: women who own businesses are more than twice as likely as their male counterparts to fall into the «no growth plans» bucket.

«Just as good as their male counterparts, but just not as many.»

For decades, female employees pressed for access to the same opportunities and treatment as their male counterparts.

Women entrepreneurs are just as likely as their male counterparts to own a middle market enterprise: Less than 1 % (0.7 %) of commercially - active businesses are in the middle market (defined as firms with between $ 10 million and $ 1 billion in revenues).

Republicans, especially of late, represent what most women should cringe... they are for women who are subservient to their men, who think that men know best when it comes to their own reproductive system, and who consistently support corporations that underpay women in every equivalent positions as the male counterpart.

And these formidable females were just as demanding and bloodthirsty as their male counterparts.

Women have long expressed a desire, passion and capability to join the highest ranks of the culinary industry, but continue to lack the same access, opportunities and support as their male counterparts — with less than a quarter of females chefs in leadership roles.

And oh, yeah, she captured medalist honors by four strokes after playing from the same tees and carding a 3 - over 75 as her male counterparts.

This is the day when women have finally earned as much as their male counterparts did in 2015.

The issue of gender equality continues to separate views, with some viewing it as a lost cause while others see the need for a law granting women equal rights as their male counterparts to be implemented.

The Erie County Industrial Development Agency has approved a mandate requiring any company that receives tax breaks or incentives must pay female employees equal rates as their male counterparts, if both are doing the same job or holding the same position.While the 15 ECIDA directors who were at the meeting support the pay equity policy, questions were raised about how it may be enforced.

«It is a real shame that in this great state we have women doing equivalent work as their male counterparts yet they are not being paid the same amount,» Skoufis said.

A new Tel Aviv University study on women in the workplace finds women are as savvy and exacting as their male counterparts when negotiating with or on behalf of friends.

Londa Schiebinger, the study's chief author, writes that women scientists do nearly twice the amount of housework as their male counterparts: 54 % for women compared with 28 % for men.

Veteran women life science researchers in positions of authority and with similar resumes as their male counterparts still make significantly less money.

«Girls need to know that they are scoring as well as their male counterparts on these objective measures and that they can be successful in mathematics - intensive careers,» says Wilson.

«Other people might feel that women elected this way somehow did not meet the same standards as their male counterparts, or even other women elected through the regular process,» McNutt says.

And cultural background and level of economic development seem linked with greater competitiveness; for example, Han Chinese or Armenian girls are as competitive as their male counterparts.

Research suggests female developers are as skilled at coding as their male counterparts, despite their poor representation in the tech world.

I understand their place in history: The 1980's was a tough decade — women were entering the workplace and trying to prove that they were every bit as competent as their male counterparts.

I feel that I have to fight twice as hard as my male counterparts to gain credibility in this field.

Women's Affairs April 12 was Equal Pay Day — not that we're celebrating (because we, women, had to work this far into 2016 to make as much as our male counterparts).

Even with their new legal recognition, hijras are still marginalized in a country where impoverished women do not have the same rights as their male counterparts.

They're not afraid of men or of making the first move and can often be just as sexually aggressive as their male counterparts.

Almost as confusing as its male counterpart (though not quite), best supporting actress seems like a wide open race at this point.

«I was like, «I have never been paid the same as my male counterparts... Never, never.»»

Sebastian Stan shows up as her male counterpart, an egomaniacal showboat who won gold back in the day and is training the Olympics team that Maggie is hoping to become a part of.

With the support that comes through the Sundance Labs and the ensuing continuum of Sundance support, female directors were just as likely as their male counterparts to succeed.

In this world, though, that at least puts them in the same realm as their male counterparts.

The female - driven Blockers joins a genre that has been dominated by males for almost three decades and proves that women can be just as raunchy as their male counterparts.

Made in Dagenham chronicles the 1968 struggle of female Ford employees at a British factory to earn the same pay as their male counterparts, but it does so in a tidy, cute - Brit way that undersells what must have been a harsh, hard - fought victory.

Viola Hastings (Amanda Bynes) gets creative to give her soccer team the same opportunities as her male counterparts.

And yet the ladies aren't nearly as amusing or interesting as their male counterparts.

«I can think of a handful of films this year that have that, but there's not many,» Gerwig says, pointing to a lack of female filmmakers, who are also not honored as much as their male counterparts.

Indeed, when introduced in the early 20th century, it was a sensible response to reflexive, sweeping discrimination under which women were routinely paid half as much as their male counterparts.

In Europe most women worry because they are not as visible as their male counterparts in their offices or work place.

That their priorities can be just as out of whack as their male counterparts.

Widowed women are twice as likely as their male counterparts to live in poverty during retirement, according to a March study by the National Institute on Retirement Security.

Female gorillas only weigh half as much as their male counterparts.

She is just as protected as her male counterpart but the armour looks just a bit lighter and subtly tailored to fit her female curves.

Beyond sporting pig - tails and being pink, the change of character is from the Ms. Pac - Man school of design, handling exactly the same as her male counterpart despite the change in aesthetic.

In both games she sports a combat ready look that makes her look as practical as her male counterparts.

The case studies of Fine, Anne Ryan, and Michael (Corinne) West that Marter includes in her essay reinforce the frustrations that women, who were as ambitious and as creative as their male counterparts, faced as they tried to gain recognition.

The Guardian shares women musicians» experiences of not being as respected as their male counterparts.

As part of the programme, female associates and counsel will get extra support as they go through the same selection process as their male counterparts.

«I am as much worthy of respect as my male counterparts in this career,» said Linda Fuerst, senior partner with Norton Rose Fulbright LLP, on the first of the two panels.

Why are women employees not advancing in the same way as their male counterparts?