Sentences with phrase «for women studies»

Not exact matches

Earlier this year, for example, Judy Zaichkowsky of Simon Fraser University's Beedie School of Business published a study indicating that the presence of just one woman on a company's board resulted in significantly higher standards of corporate governance (which has an established correlation to better financial performance).

This sweet, rich oil was shown to do some pretty nifty things for abdominally obese women in a 2009 study out of Brazil, including decreasing their waist circumference, increasing beneficial HDL (high - density lipoprotein) cholesterol and improving the ratio of «bad» LDL (low - density lipoprotein) to «good» HDL cholesterol.

According to the Wells Fargo / Gallup study, women business owners said their top three sources of initial funding for their business are cash or savings (85 percent), personal credit cards (37 percent) and financial gifts or support from family or friends (29 percent).

A 2015 study found that women who applied for professorships in STEM areas (excluding economics) were more likely to be hired than similarly qualified male candidates.

There are psychometric studies, says Helgesen, that show that women in organizations tend to be more rewarded for being precise and correct, while men are more rewarded for taking risks.

But a recent study from Tetyana Pudrovska, an assistant professor at Pennsylvania State University, and Amelia Karraker, an assistant professor at Iowa State University, shows that, for women, it may not work that way.

Adding more evidence to the pile, a 2013 study found that while short women and tall men might say they prefer sexually dimorphic pairings, their actual choices for mates didn't necessarily stick to such a strict criteria.

The study argues that specialized incubators — those especially for women or people of color — are not the answer, on the grounds that these targeted incubators and accelerators don't provide the same opportunities for entrepreneurs to network within their industries.

One memorable example is the much covered study that revealed large percentages of people (a quarter of women and two thirds of men) prefer giving themselves a painful electric shock to just sitting with their own thoughts for 15 minutes.

Companies are becoming increasingly more committed to gender diversity once studies began exposing the uncomfortable truth: «Women remain underrepresented at every level in corporate America, despite earning more college degrees than men for thirty years and counting,» states the report.

On top of the problem of unfair pay for women, a Harvard study revealed that, when it comes to annual performance reviews, women were 1.4 times more likely to receive critical subjective feedback, not positive feedback or critical objective feedback, and that traits that were considered negative in women were often interpreted as positive in men.

For the study, 22 men and women from Division I golf programs in the Midwest practiced putting in silence and while listening to different genres of music, including classical, country, jazz, and hip - hop / rap.

LYNE: Every study of consumer buying points to the fact that women aren't just the dominant consumer, but are either responsible for, or have the final say on, 80 % of all consumer purchases.

In one study, Kross had men and women undergrads give a speech about why they were qualified for their dream job.

(Thankfully, no actual woman was made to do this for the study — the men were simply asked to imagine the two Sues.)

A recent study by Accenture found that, for at least half of men and women, «work - life balance» is the number one determiner of whether or not they have a successful career.

A heap of evidence shows women are assessed differently when it comes to confidence, likability and self - promotion, so the researchers only recruited male study subjects, as they put it, «to control for potentially confounding effects of gender.»

Although the Institute for Family Studies reports that more husbands than wives admit to being unfaithful, according to The Cut, psychoanalyst and writer Esther Perel cites an increase of 40 % in unfaithful women since 1990, while men's statistics have stayed about the same.

There are no controls for gender in the study, although the sample is representative of the real world, with fewer women on the list.

Women have less time for on - the - job labor because they spend more time doing housework than their male counterparts — so they miss out when they're working in fields that reward long hours, based on a new National Bureau for Economic Research study.

For the study, 86 women between 70 and 80 years old with MCI were randomly assigned to do one of three types of training twice a week for six months: aerobic (like walking and swimming), resistance (like weight lifting), or balanFor the study, 86 women between 70 and 80 years old with MCI were randomly assigned to do one of three types of training twice a week for six months: aerobic (like walking and swimming), resistance (like weight lifting), or balanfor six months: aerobic (like walking and swimming), resistance (like weight lifting), or balance.

It does show that for Pao, as for many of the women in Snyder's study, simply being excellent at the job at hand isn't going to get you very far.

One pretty effective way to get the message across is telling them this: regardless of where you sleep, getting more sleep can lead to getting more sex, at least for women, according to a 2015 study.

In the past men and women have repelled feminism for different reasons, says U.S. historian Estelle Freedman, who specializes in women's history and feminist studies.

A study by linguist and Textio CEO Kieran Snyder, which I wrote about last summer, illustrates what the non-Sheryl Sandberg experience looks like for many women, not just Ellen Pao.

Indeed, previous studies have shown that women who adjust their level of assertiveness to match that of their negotiating partner during the process, rather than acting overly aggressive or passive throughout, will achieve better results for themselves.

Additionally, student newspaper The Daily Tar Heel reports, the new report «found clear evidence that academic counselors from the football, men's basketball and women's basketball teams asked for players to be enrolled in bogus independent study classes in order for them to be eligible.»

Moritz, a former Time magazine journalist, went on to lament the lower numbers of women studying math and sciences as the reason why it's so difficult for the firm to hire more women — a popular excuse often used by the tech companies with low diversity numbers.

The second trait linked with a long life for women in the 75 - year study was agreeableness or friendliness.

The author of this study, Joni Hersch, finds that after controlling for other factors that determine wages, women employed in jobs with an average probability of being sexual harassed are paid a compensating differential of 25 cents per hour relative to women employed in jobs with no risk of sexual harassment.

A woman wears an early prototype of a bio-artificial pancreas (BAP) at the European Center for the Study of Diabetes on July 3, 2014, in Strasbourg, eastern France.

According to a new study by Hired.com, a business that matches tech workers with jobs, women are still both asking for and receiving smaller salaries than men.

The majority of Airbnb rural hosts in almost every country studied for the report are women.

The study's authors had 161 participants (who were almost exactly split between men and women) first read a passage in their normal voices to get baseline measures of their voices for things like loudness and pitch.

«It's pretty clear that caring for children is a barrier for women entrepreneurs,» says Jason Wiens, policy director for the Kauffman Foundation, citing a study that looked at men and women who had a PhD in a scientific field.

After controlling for all other factors, the study found that commuting has a detrimental psychological effect on women, but not on men.

According to a recent study by the National Foundation for Women Business Owners (NFWBO), only 28 % of female owners of fast - growth companies financed their businesses using equity capital.

Inc.: NFWBO's study showed that women were less likely to give up equity for funding compared with men.

For instance, women in the U.S. spend 150 % more time on housework than men do, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data, which the study notes.

But one recent study found that attractive women were more likely to be discriminated against when applying for less - desirable positions.

While studying bank loans, Robb and Coleman's findings indicated that the application rates for bank loans were similar for men and women.

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Prevalence was highest among women aged 18 to 25 years, indicating that young women are at greater risk for prenatal marijuana use,» wrote the study authors.

The study found that four of the eight top executives at Pinterest were people of color, and, according to Recode, women account for just 12.5 percent of all executives at the company.

One of the reasons the McKinsey study found for this was because when women negotiate, people like them less for it.

The discussion touched on all the usual culprits for the underrepresentation of women in tech industry leadership roles: discrimination in the workplace, the «pipeline problem» of too few girls studying math and science, the difficulty of balancing motherhood with the demands of a startup.

The Framingham Heart Study, for example, monitored women's health over the course of 20 years.

Cards Against Humanity's intellectual expansion «Science Pack» has raised over $ 578,000 for The Science Ambassador Scholarship, a scholarship fund for U.S. - based women interested in studying science, technology, engineering, or mathematics (STEM).

In some studies, women have out - scored men in their ability to take initiative and drive for results.

Sandberg peppers the book with studies, reports and personal anecdotes to back up her premise — that for reasons both in and out of their control, there are fewer woman leaders than men in the business world and beyond.