Sentences with phrase «female lead would»

In an interview with The Penny Arcade Report, Jean - Max Morris, creative director of the game, said some publishers claimed that a game with a female lead wouldn't sell, despite the persistent and regular success of such series as Metroid and Tomb Raider, as well as one - offs like Mirror's Edge.

I agree that the female lead would be much more difficult to cast.

We asked our Facebook fans to tell us which books with female leads would also be perfect for boys.

Jane Foster's absence in Thor: Ragnarok and the introduction of Tessa Thompson as the female lead has fans wondering whether or not Natalie Portman will be returning to the franchise.

The female lead has yet to be cast.

Being here in Cannes I've been paying close attention to how these films with such strong female leads have been faring with the male majority.

Japan's bosses use to say having female leads would mean a game wouldn't sell.

The character models are the typical approach you might expect from a Japanese Vita anime - inspired dungeon RPG, and most of the female leads have larger - than - usual breasts with outfits that are somewhat revealing.

Aloy as a female lead has always been the «team's vision» according to Yoshida.

Not exact matches

Do you agree with this sentiment — that a female - led company going public will have a ripple effect in the tech world?

A covert questionnaire by and for female employees at Nike that hinted at a culture of sexual harassment and gender discrimination has already led to the departure of at least six top male executives.

She was one of many accomplished female founders who'd converged to talk about what's needed to grow women - led businesses.

The first female — and first American — CEO of Wolters Kluwer in the Netherlands, McKinstry has led a digital transformation of the 175 - year old Dutch publishing house.

Having been the 20th employee of Google and its first female engineer, Mayer could have assumed a leading role at just about any internet company.

Foster Innovation Different practices that arise from having lived in a foreign country or speaking a foreign language or practicing a certain religion can lead to innovative products like Nike's new «Pro Hijab», a lightweight, breathable headcover for female Muslim athletes.

But most importantly, gone are the days when movie executives thought female - led superheroes wouldn't make money.

Superhero universes have had few female - led movies in general, and none in recent years.

Having at least a few would better support the success of female - led startups.

The number of female - led firms has surged to new heights.

A recent study from Babson College found that venture capital firms with female partners are more than three times as likely to invest in companies with female CEOs than firms led by all - male teams, but the percentage of women in the VC industry has dropped from 10 % to 6 % since 1999 — and only 2.7 % of VC - backed companies have a female CEO.

We have seen a wave of female entrepreneurs, and so the risk of investing in female - led companies is finally being realized.

A lack of female leadership in some fields leads to fewer female mentors and fewer companies where women have a position at the upper echelons of the organization, which it turn results in fewer women entering that industry and becoming leaders themselves.

One thing to know: A two - time Olympic gold winner, Humphries has been the most dominant female driver, leading her sled to three World Cup wins and two second - place finishes this season.

This simple fact lead Kumar to the crux of the study: «Overall, due to a self - selection process, only women with above average abilities would choose the analyst profession and, consequently on average, female analysts are likely to be more skillful than male analysts.»

«Parenting daughters reduces the bias that one has towards women, which leads to more female hires,» the researchers wrote, noting that firms with a greater number of daughters over the age of 12 also lead to even greater gender diversity in firms.

As I've mentioned before in previous articles, we need more female - led businesses and to start changing our and I hope these female «treps continue to pave the way for years to come.

The acquisition makes Essence Communications a 100 percent black - owned company, led by a black female executive team who now have an ownership stake in the brand.

Assuming I got along with both CEOs and enjoyed working with either of them equally, but the number of women - led ventures receiving venture investment was still disproportionately less than their male counterparts, I would probably invest in the venture led by a female CEO.

Upon being hired to lead a Fortune 500 company in 2012 while pregnant with her first child, the 37 - year - old Yahoo CEO became a reluctant symbol of the new have - it - all female exec.

Here are just a few: Jordan Peele became the first African American to win the Best Original Screenplay Oscar for Get Out, and Guillermo del Toro's The Shape of Water won for Best Picture — a film featuring a female actor in the lead role hasn't won the category since Million Dollar Baby in 2004.

In meetings led by men, women would echo key points made by female colleagues and be sure to attribute them to the original speaker.

Millman's company has helped 445 female - led companies connect with angel, venture and corporate investors to raise about $ 5.5 billion in equity financing over the last 11 years.

The organization is leading efforts to impact these numbers directly with Female Founder Office Hours supporting women who are seeking funding, to having tech founders and CEOs commit to increasing diversity in their team, board and investors.

In front of employees, the board member Arianna Huffington talked about how having one female director typically leads to more female directors.

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But the benefits of investing in female - led financial endeavors go even further than the Journal has it: Hedge funds run by women tend to outperform other hedge funds.

Fashion retailer JD Williams has named TBWA \ Manchester as its lead creative agency as it aims to attract an older female demographic.

Aspect's first employee has risen to a new rank at the female - led firm.

Movies like Black Panther and Get Out are celebrated, the new Star Wars made a point to have a diverse cast and a female lead, and cultural products are criticized for being too white and too male.

Although there have been other female - led venture firms — Illuminate Ventures is one — Ms. Gouw and Ms. Fonstad are among the first founders to come from big, top - tier firms.

Kleiner Perkins has several female partners, but only life - sciences investor Beth Seidenberg and Mary Meeker, the renowned Internet analyst who left Morgan Stanley (MS) three years ago to lead Kleiner's $ 1 billion digital growth fund, are general partners — the real power tier at the firm.

Having recently received a $ 250,000 federal grant and made its first investment in a female - founded Austin business, True Wealth Ventures is one venture capital fund that's ready to lift the under - funded sector of women - led companies in Austin and across the nation.

«Some of our other companies have female executives but few are led by a female CEO,» he says.

Brand, whose venture capital firm invests in companies led by females, had a high - profile 2017 as an ABJ Profiles in Power winner, ranking among the top female executives in Central Texas, as well as being a featured guest in one of ABJ's monthly Face 2 Face interview events.

A Texas - based micro venture capital fund called TrueWealth Ventures has been launched to take advantage of what the founders believe is an underfunded, high - performing opportunity segment, female - led startups, and is raising a $ 20m fund.

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Another update was provided by female - led DataVisor that it had raised $ 14.5 million from GSR and NEA in October 2015.

I don't think that she finds the fact that people in their 20's and 30's are going to churches led by male pastors disturbing: It's that they're attending churches where a female pastor would not even be an * option *.

Ultimately, all these demands led to the same end: «Gender identity,» rather than biology, had to be the sole determinant of whether one was male or female.

The situation could become even more dramatic because the one - child policy has led to a grotesque distortion of the male - female ratio among young Chinese adults.