Sentences with phrase «headed by women»

Women earn 80 cents on the dollar compared to men and 29 percent of American families headed by women with no husband present currently live below the poverty level.

HUD statistics show that although close to two - thirds of all U.S. households own their homes, that figure drops to one - half for households headed by women.

Minority ownership up, homeownership rate for households headed by women low, and home expansion seen as a popular solution to the tight housing market.

«At least 80 % of the more than 35,000 BC children on welfare are growing up in single - parent families, the vast majority of them headed by women,» says Alana Prochuk, Manager of Public Legal Education at West Coast LEAF and also a participant in the Welfare Food Challenge.

What percentage of Fortune 100 companies are headed by women?

That gap widens among chief executives of the 25 largest multi-academy trusts with just three headed by women.

Currently, 17 percent of Washington's 296 districts are headed by women, according to the Washington Association of School Administrators.

The vast majority of them live in single - parent families headed by women in the late teens or early twenties.

«A growing number of households and families are headed by women.

Nearly six in ten poor adults are women, and more than half of all poor children live in families headed by women.

With Lori Gruebel's appointment, 14 of the 26 departments in Rockland County government are headed by women.

With this selection, the chairs of the budget oversight committees of both the Senate and Assembly are now headed by women.

«Just 14 percent of engineers and 3 percent of venture capitalists are women; 98 percent of VC funding goes to companies headed by men, and most of the companies pitching new ideas on the breast pump front are headed by women,» Schama writes.

To many public - spirited persons involved in social welfare, moral questions were raised by any attempt on the part of managers of publicly subsidized housing to limit the admission of families receiving public aid, one - parent families headed by women, and families with serious antisocial behavior.

But if this so, then we are in even deeper trouble than Faludi suggests, since the divorce rate in America is the highest of any industrialized nation and results mainly in single - parent famines headed by women.

While there are lots of potential ways we could help working mothers, one that may seem counterintuitive is to focus less on the handful of women at the top — just 28 of Canada's 500 largest companies are headed by women — and to emphasize instead the successes happening in the middle.

The ABC will be headed by a woman for the first time, with the official announcement that Michelle Guthrie will take over from departing boss mark Scott.

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Posted May 31, 2011 Updated April 1, 2014 The ABC will be headed by a woman for the first time, with the official announcement that Michelle Guthrie will take over from departing boss mark Scott.

When a class is headed by a woman, boys are more likely to be seen as disruptive, while girls are less likely to be seen as either disruptive or inattentive.

Police claim the van's driver admitted that he armed himself with brass knuckles after being struck in the head by the woman with a water bottle.

For children in lone - parent families headed by a woman, the incidence of low income was 23 percent; for children living in two - parent families, the incidence was 5.9 percent.

¹ Low income is particularly prevalent among single - parent families headed by a woman.

Not exact matches

Morneau's group of extraordinary men (six) and women (six), led by Dominic Barton, the head of global consultancy McKinsey & Co., appears destined to receive a certain amount of criticism.

Today it teems with more than 300 head - office employees whose diversity is staggering by any standard, a mix of men, women, Saudis, and foreign nationals representing 23 different countries.

SuperShe, a women - only international group headed by Kristina Roth, will soon open a headquarters and a space for their wellness retreats on a private island off the coast of Finland.

The first woman to head the 212 - year - old company (DD), Kullman took over as a dismal 2009 began and by year - end had publicly vowed to raise earnings over three years at a 20 % annual compound rate.

A 1994 Pentagon policy preventing women from serving in combat was rescinded in 2013 by then - Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, and ultimately led to the current DoD head Ash Carter making the historic change.

The Obama administration's move last year to integrate women into front - line combat roles may get reversed by the next Pentagon head selected by President - elect Donald Trump.

Isabel Dos Santos, the woman listed by Forbes as Africa's first female billionaire, has been unceremoniously fired from her post as head of Angola's national oil company Sonangol, according to newswire reports.

U.S. health officials have concluded that Zika infections in pregnant women can cause microcephaly, a birth defect marked by small head size that can lead to severe developmental problems in babies.

«For every one percentage point in the (women's) participation rate, you are boosting Japanese GDP by about half a percentage points,» Jesper Koll, head of WisdomTree Japan, an ETF - provider, told CNBC.

New Delhi - based intra-city bike and car - pooling startup Pooltoo, headed by three women entrepreneurs, have raised an undisclosed amount in seed funding from Devika Ganesh, a high - net - worth individual.

A first in good governance call to action article could also be written by seven women CEOs, seven heads of Crown corporations, seven heads of hospitals or universities or seven CEOs of non-profit organizations.

The Fowler revelation was followed by the departures of two top execs, engineering head Amit Singhal and product head Ed Baker, after reports by Recode about their questionable behavior related to women.

Still, Klimchuk is honest about her uncertainty over where progressive women may find themselves in a potential new party headed by Jason Kenney.

-- Fenwick: Gender Diversity Survey 2013 Maier flipped the research on its head by posing the question: «Why do we have to say «having 20 % of women on boards shows a positive result for companies instead of «having 80 % of men on boards shows a negative result for companies?

There are over two million households in America headed by a single woman with an income more than $ 100,000 a year1.

moment» to form her own firm came after reading a report that showed companies with women at the helm perform better financially than those headed by men.

When a woman has an abortion she commits suicide by cuttin» off her own head when she tells the father of the child to take a hike.

«Our society will be enriched by the public recognition of such enduring faithful love in families headed by two men or two women as well as by a woman and a man.

Never forget full applause for Clinton by his liberal posse in the Senate when walked with head held high and the trail of women he abused swept under the carpet.

A Year of Biblical Womanhood: How a Liberated Woman Found Herself Sitting On Her Roof, Covering Her Head, and Calling Her Husband Master by Rachel Held Evans — A disarmingly funny, wise, honest exploration of what makes a woman «biblical» and the danger of reducing the Bible to an adjecWoman Found Herself Sitting On Her Roof, Covering Her Head, and Calling Her Husband Master by Rachel Held Evans — A disarmingly funny, wise, honest exploration of what makes a woman «biblical» and the danger of reducing the Bible to an adjecwoman «biblical» and the danger of reducing the Bible to an adjective.

An interesting statement from the same article: «'' Many times in a Church world, submission is held over the heads of women by men who are emotionally manipulative or abusive in order to get their way and maintain power and control.»

(I am reminded of a young woman I observed who, when asked by Sam Keen to draw a picture of herself, drew only her head and a pair of stick legs.)

Terror was created in the raids for heads and women in Africa, Assam and Iryan Jaya, the raids for pillage by Vikings, Vandals and Visigoths, and the raids for land by nearly every people from the time of Genghis Khan to the settling of the American frontier to the development of logging companies in contemporary Brazil.

30 When the king heard the words of the woman he rent his clothes — now he was passing by upon the wall — and the people looked, and, behold, he had sackcloth beneath upon his body — 31 and he said, «May God do so to me, and more also, if the head of Elisha the son of Shaphat remains on his shoulders today.»

At the same time, it was clear that, for all their wrong - headed and occasionally malicious attacks on the Church, these ladies were giving voice to something which was also generally felt within society and particularly by younger women who knew nothing of the Network or its antics but who were not comfortable with answering the Church's critics.

He goes his way indifferent to the distribution and division of earthly goods, as one who has no possessions and desires none; he is not concerned for his daily bread, like the birds of the air; he does not trouble himself about house and home, as one who neither has nor seeks a shelter or a resting - place; he is not concerned to follow the dead to the grave; he does not turn his head to look at the things that usually claim the attention of men; he is not bound to any woman, so as to be charmed by her and desirous of pleasing her.

Complementarians do not require women to cover their heads in prayer (1 Corinthians 11:5), or remain entirely silent in church (1 Corinthians 14:34, 1 Timothy 2:12) or abstain from wearing jewelry (1 Peter 3:3), or abide by the Levitical Purity Laws that make them ceremonially unclean during their periods.