Sentences with phrase «in women in»

I almost prefer for people like this just to say, «Hey, I don't believe in women in authority» and just leave it at that.

Jana is an active participant in the local governance community and is heavily involved in Women in Super.

The magazine reports the foundation is partnering with 20 businesses and nonprofits and investing $ 70 million in women in a bid to close that gap.

(In October, we called 2013 «the year of Lean In» in our women in the workplace package.)

And this concerted, targeted effort led by CEO Klaus Kleinfeld resulted in a 3.2 percentage point bump in executives and a 2.7 percentage point increase in women in professional and plant manager roles.

The data tells us that's harmful to society and bad for business, which is why I've spoken about the urgent need to invest in women in tech.

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Only 2 % of venture funding went to female founders in 2017, and just 8 % of partners at the top venture capital firms are women.

Eight women and children from a caravan of hundreds of Central American migrants have sought asylum in the U.S. after officials allowed them entry from Mexico.

«In this video, all of the women get pregnant from an alien invasion.

Petraeus violated his own personal code of honor and duty toward his wife and family - and thus, in his eyes, toward his country, particularly to the men and women whom he was entrusted to lead at the CIA.

Amid all the angst about the small percentage of women who work in computer science, a new research paper has a surprising finding: Women may actually be better coders thanwomen who work in computer science, a new research paper has a surprising finding: Women may actually be better coders thanWomen may actually be better coders than men.

As one pair of sociologists from The University of North Texas and Rice put it, «in a society that encourages men to be dominant and women to be submissive, having the image of tall men hovering over short women reinforces» the very idea that men must be the aggressors and the chasers when it comes to romantic relationships.

In other words, companies run by men got more than 16 times more funding than companies run by women.

A woman that was mentioned prominently in the story, Rowanne Brewer Lane, also complained about the coverage.

«Parenthood isn't just a women's issue, it's an economic issue and one that affects all parents — men and women alike,» Duckworth said in a statement Monday.

In Japan, a Tokyo governor recently ordered municipal employees to finish their work by 8:00 p.m., after a 25 - year - old woman employed by Dentsu, an advertising company, jumped to her death after logging more than 105 overtime hours in one montIn Japan, a Tokyo governor recently ordered municipal employees to finish their work by 8:00 p.m., after a 25 - year - old woman employed by Dentsu, an advertising company, jumped to her death after logging more than 105 overtime hours in one montin one month.

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).

Much like the Civil Rights era in the US succeeded in part because individuals who didn't have something clear to gain stepped up publicly as allies, Leader - Chivée sees a similar parallel with women in the workplace, noting that «it takes a lot of men stepping up» to help effect long - lasting change.

Although it may seem difficult for a three - time married man to profess to «family values,» Melania Trump already has gone out of her way to follow in the footsteps of women like Laura Bush and Michelle Obama who have prioritized motherhood during their tenures.

The newspaper reported on Tuesday that local prosecutors decided not to pursue charges against Cuban seven years ago after a woman told Portland police that Cuban sexually assaulted her in a nightclub, claiming that he reached into her pants and penetrated her vagina with a finger without her permission while they posed for a photograph.

The implicit idea is that we women — more than half the earth's population — are all in one giant sisterhood club together.

Yes, you read that right: In the 21st century, there are factories where muscled men and women brush and scrape at freshly dyed denim to give it a weathered patina.

In those cases, women had acceptance rates of 71.8 percent when they used gender - neutral profiles.

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.

Case in point, a recent study from Abertay University in Scotland found that a woman that's seen as wearing too much makeup can affect people's perception of her ability to lead.

I could go on, but all in all, I had a great experience with Of Mercer, and I highly recommend any woman who has trouble finding affordable, high - quality work clothes check out the company's site to see if its dresses, pants, and blazers are the right fit for her.

A new report from the city's Department of Small Business Services found that, over the last decade, women - owned businesses in the city grew by 43 %, outpacing the average company growth rate of 39 %.

Anyone who's read or heard anything about diversity in tech is familiar with the pipeline problem: the fact that women and under - represented minorities don't pursue STEM degrees at the same rate as men.

The women recount being assaulted, groped and raped by their drivers in the letter.

Tracie Grubb opened the first location of Style Encore, a women's fashion resale franchise, in Mandeville, La..

The average VC deal for among women - led companies last year was worth $ 4.5 million — compared to $ 6.1 million in 2015 and $ 5.1 million in 2014.

In 2011, Timothy Judge and Daniel M. Cable, both professors at Cleveland State, also explored the relationship between weight and wage, and they founds that «a woman who is average weight earns $ 389,300 less across a 25 - year career than a woman who is 25 pounds below average weight.»

«When that new day finally dawns, it will be because of a lot of magnificent women, many of whom are right here in this room tonight, and some pretty phenomenal men are fighting hard to make sure that they become the leaders who take us to the time when nobody ever has to say «Me Too» again.»

A PERTH woman's expertise in a popular web development platform is attracting interest and business opportunities from across the globe.

British bank Barclays recently started issuing exchange - traded notes on the NYSE Arca exchange (similar to ETFs, only they are derivatives guaranteed by the bank rather than invested in the underlying securities) that track a Women in Leadership index of U.S. companies whose CEOs are women or whose boards are at least one - quarter feWomen in Leadership index of U.S. companies whose CEOs are women or whose boards are at least one - quarter fewomen or whose boards are at least one - quarter female.

«Red dresses are important to the Native community because it helps bring awareness to the missing and murdered indigenous women in Indian Country,» Cornell said.

The brand has a powerful mission of inclusivity, including making products that «are designed for African American, Asian, Latina, and multicultural women with skin tones in a myriad of shades.»

Some of those women spoke at BBG Ventures Reset 2018 on Wednesday in New York City.

The requirement for member companies is that they do work on behalf of women or address women's needs in some way.

In Indonesia, Malaysia, Peru, Philippines, Vietnam and Thailand, women had «equal or higher entrepreneurship rates than men.»

We always ask why we don't see women in top leadership positions, but we never ask why we see so many men in these jobs.

Recent research by McKinsey & Co. and Lean In found that women are rarely picked to be CEO because, at each step of the way, women are missing out on promotions.

And after the emergence of the Access Hollywood tape in October 2016, in which Trump can be heard boasting about making unsolicited advances toward women, writer Natasha Stoynoff said that while on a reporting trip to Mar - a-Lago, Trump led her into a room alone, pushed her against a wall, and began trying to kiss her.

Now, both the SPD and the Christian Democrats — both parties in the country's ruling coalition — will be lead by women for the first time (the other woman is, of course, Chancellor Angela Merkel).

Yet they become counterproductive as women rise higher in a world in which the rules of engagement have been set by men.

Accenture has also worked on ways to get more women into senior leadership positions (they've changed the interview process so that candidates of both genders get to know more members in the executive ranks) and to retain them (implementing a one - year no - travel policy for employees who are new mothers and fathers).

«A lady who escaped from North Korea and applied and one artist [a painter] still living in Syria in war were stories that stood out, because these women live or lived in danger and still longed for the same things we all do,» she adds.

The little black dress, a wrap dress, a pencil skirt, and a pair of straight - legged pants could be staples in a woman's casual wardrobe, white and blue button down shirts, crewneck sweaters, wrinkle - free khakis and cashmere blazers could provide the basis for a man's business casual attire.

A businessman walks by a homeless woman holding a card requesting money on September 28, 2010 in New York City.

• Billie, a New York - based razor subscription company for women, raised $ 1.5 million in seed funding.