Sentences with phrase «in women in the general»

Then, just last year, startling new findings indicated that mutations in the BRCA breast cancer gene are as likely in women in the general population as they are for those with a family history of breast cancer.

All the reviews confirmed effectiveness of interventions in high - risk groups and ineffectiveness in women in the general population during either the antenatal or post-natal period.

Not exact matches

During an interview with Fox News, Mercedes Schlapp seemed eager to frame Wolf's jokes as disrespectful to women in general, and Fox underlined that theme with a chiron reading «So - Called Feminist Attacks Conservative Women.&rwomen in general, and Fox underlined that theme with a chiron reading «So - Called Feminist Attacks Conservative Women.&rWomen.»

Women in general have less access than men to capital (including venture and private equity investment and government loans), markets, and networks.

Aidis looked at data in five key categories: general business environment, accessibility of resources, women's rights and the prevalence of women in leadership roles, potential for high - growth female - owned businesses, and the entrepreneurship pipeline — the category Canada scored lowest in.

So a strict list of criteria, which are almost impossible to achieve anyways, is going to dissuade women but not, in general, men.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Tuesday said he had «no reason to doubt» the women who have come forward in recent days with sexual - misconduct accusations against Roy Moore, the Alabama Republican running for Sessions» vacated Senate seat.

The San Francisco Chronicle reported on Wednesday that Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital has released two victims of the shooting: a 32 - year - old woman admitted in serious condition, and a 27 - year - old woman admitted in fair condition.

While it's smart for women to consider which fields pay well in general when choosing a career, they shouldn't rush to switch based on a perceived gender disparity in earnings, Britton said.

Less heralded by history was a group of six women who worked in wartime secrecy at the University of Pennsylvania, where John Mauchly and Presper Eckert led a team that was building ENIAC, the world's first programmable, all - electronic, general - purpose computer.

Shortly before she died in 2011, Jean Jennings Bartik reflected proudly on the fact that all the programmers who created the first general - purpose computer were women: «Despite our coming of age in an era when women's career opportunities were generally quite confined, we helped initiate the era of the computer.»

In May, Dollar General noted that Millennials, especially women, were increasingly shopping at their stores, representing 12 percent of all its customers and 24 percent of its sales.

So when I interviewed General Motors (gm) CEO Mary Barra and Pepsico (pep) CEO Indra Nooyi at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis Friday, it quickly became obvious that they deserved their spots as No. 1 and No. 2, respectively, on our newly - released 2016 Most Powerful Women list.

Treasurer and general counsel — other senior positions in which women have made headway — also aren't seen as feeders for the top job.

In a relatively short amount of time, Saujani has gotten the likes of Twitter, General Electric, Square and Google to sign on to her initiative: two - month long programs that teach young women to code and offers mentorships.

According to Sona Wang, quoted in a Crain's Chicago Business article and general partner of Inroads Capital Partners, an Evanston venture capital firm that specializes in backing women and minorities, the venture capital business «clearly relies heavily on the old - boy network.»

They hope to be able to amass enough data about women's menstrual cycles, sexual behavior, mood, and diet that they can help any woman know exactly when to conceive, warn her about early problems like potential endometriosis, and over time, promote better health care for women in general by collecting large amounts of information that hasn't been collected before.

«Considering that «histrionic personality disorder» is still in the DSM - 5, and that women in general are more likely to be diagnosed with anxiety, depression, and some other mental illnesses by clinicians, I'd say he's stoking the flames of a much larger problem about how our society seems to view women — as having excessive emotional needs that need to nearly constantly be managed or controlled rather than taken seriously.

Investing in women is smart business, says Kathryn Swintek, general partner and member of the Investment Committee of Golden Seeds Fund 2, part of New York - based angel network Golden Seeds, which comprises more than 275 investors, 80 percent of whom are women.

Famous for being the first woman to serve as U.S. Attorney General, Reno served eight eventful years under President Bill Clinton in the 1990s.

Pari Karem, general manager of immigrant services at the YMCA in Kitchener, Ont., works directly with newcomer youth and women.

Instead, in general, the women are as biased against other women as men are.

There is no limit to the number of sessions in which women can participate; after the first rotation, the groups focus more on growing professional networks and having access to mentors and general community resources.

The holiday is not about «celebrating» women in general.

In 1988, along with Bob Steel and some other future Goldman leaders — former co-presidents John Thornton and John Thain, billionaire investor J. Christopher Flowers, hedge - fund manager Frank Brosens, and Gary Gensler, now head of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission — Blankfein was one of thirty - six men (not a single woman) named general partners.

A former top military aide to Secretary Ash Carter used a government credit card to pay large bar tabs at strip clubs in Rome and in South Korea frequented by prostitutes and engaged in «inappropriate» behavior with women, a long - awaited report by the Department of Defense Inspector General released Thursday found.

Also, there has been previous academic research showing that fast - growth, high - tech entrepreneurs in the U.S. tend to be men, which is partly because women are less involved in science and engineering in general, says Kelly.

Now, presidential and other executive - level government salaries are set by law and are not, in general, gender - dependent, but it is interesting to note that it is those Western nations that have somewhat lower political salaries that women have reached the highest elective echelons.

«We know our solution works for the general U.S. population, but we want to make sure it is more culturally respectful, and can help the health outcomes of these population groups,» says Goodwin, whom I first met at IEEE's Women in Engineering International Leadership Conference last spring.

In general, people in jobs requiring «cognitive non-routine» skills have done much better than those in jobs needing «manual routine» skills — and women are more frequently found among the first category of jobIn general, people in jobs requiring «cognitive non-routine» skills have done much better than those in jobs needing «manual routine» skills — and women are more frequently found among the first category of jobin jobs requiring «cognitive non-routine» skills have done much better than those in jobs needing «manual routine» skills — and women are more frequently found among the first category of jobin jobs needing «manual routine» skills — and women are more frequently found among the first category of jobs.

But Truman quickly learned they were cities packed with women and children, then asked his generals to halt a third atomic strike in the works.

In his Wednesday general audience remarks, Francis asked Catholics to consider «the Christian seed of radical equality between men and women» when discussing the reasons behind declining marriage rates around the world, according to Vatican Radio.

Fed Vice-Chair Janet Yellen will soon be Fed Chair Janet Yellen, the first woman to get the top job at the world's most powerful central bank (and, ahem, the first female central banker in general).

She didn't fare much better when Kimmel inquired about the $ 66 jade egg — literally an egg - shaped piece of stone that Goop says women should put in their vaginas to «increases chi, orgasms, vaginal muscle tone, hormonal balance, and feminine energy in general.»

Perhaps it is little wonder, then, that when the Harvey Weinstein scandal broke in October 2017, the general Russian attitude, on the part of both men and women, was overwhelmingly one of bemusement and victim shaming.

U.S. women's coach Jill Ellis and U.S. Soccer general secretary Dan Flynn met with Solo, 35, in Seattle on Wednesday afternoon and gave her the news, which comes with three months of severance pay.

According to a Disney fact sheet, the neck rings Danai Gurira wore to play Dora Milaje general Okoye were modeled after the rings worn by women of the Ndebele tribe in South Africa.

As somebody who's worked for about a dozen women and two dozen men (mostly editors), my observation is that the women, in general, were smarter, sharper, more reliable and, well, smarter.

All the industry giants have been criticized for continuing to have such low numbers of women on the board, in management positions or even in the workforce in general.

According the U.S. 2014 State of Women - Owned Businesses Report, growth is a major stumbling block for small businesses in general and women - led firms in particWomen - Owned Businesses Report, growth is a major stumbling block for small businesses in general and women - led firms in particwomen - led firms in particular.

In fact, the general strategy was to get the men in, and then the women would folloIn fact, the general strategy was to get the men in, and then the women would folloin, and then the women would follow.

General Assembly, a FlexJobs member savings partner is hosting their Women in Tech event.

She has been named one of the Most Creative People in Business By Fast Company (2017), one of the Top 100 People in the Valley by Business Insider (2016, 2012); a «Woman to Watch» by Forbes (2014), Fortune (2008) and Ad Age (2010); Techcrunch's first General Management Fellow (2009); and one of the Top 100 Women of Influence in Silicon Valley (2016,2014,2010).

Kathleen has received numerous awards including: Puget Sound Business Journal's 2017 CFO of the Year for a large public company, Puget Sound Business Journal's 2012 Outstanding Corporate Counsel of the Year, Seattle Business Magazine's 2013 General Counsel of the Year, San Francisco Business Times» 2013 Corporate Counsel of the Year finalist, and honoree in San Francisco Business Times» Most Influential Women in Bay Area Business 2014.

Sara is Founding General Partner at True Wealth Ventures, an early - stage venture capital fund investing in women - led businesses in consumer health and sustainable products and technologies.

Kerry Rupp is a General Partner at True Wealth Ventures, an early - stage venture capital fund investing in women - led businesses in consumer health and sustainable products and technologies.

Among the women who joined us in 2016: Jewel (performing and sharing her extraordinary story with us), Apple Head of Global Consumer Marketing Bozoma Saint John, Making a Murderer filmmakers Moira Demos and Laura Ricciardi, Uber Regional General Manager Rachel Holt, Priceline EVP of Global Operations Maelle Gavet, Facebook Head of People Lori Goler, SoulCycle CEO Melanie Whelan, Accompany CEO Amy Chang, designer Rachel Roy, Girls Who Code founder Reshma Saujani, Joyus CEO Sukhinder Singh Cassidy, Hearsay Social CEO Clara Shih, WWE Chief Brand Officer Stephanie McMahon, and Lean In lead researcher Marianne Cooper, as well as top executives from leading global companies such as Airbnb, Amazon, Coca - Cola, Google, IBM, NBCUniversal, Nike, Pandora, Target, Twitter, and Walmarin 2016: Jewel (performing and sharing her extraordinary story with us), Apple Head of Global Consumer Marketing Bozoma Saint John, Making a Murderer filmmakers Moira Demos and Laura Ricciardi, Uber Regional General Manager Rachel Holt, Priceline EVP of Global Operations Maelle Gavet, Facebook Head of People Lori Goler, SoulCycle CEO Melanie Whelan, Accompany CEO Amy Chang, designer Rachel Roy, Girls Who Code founder Reshma Saujani, Joyus CEO Sukhinder Singh Cassidy, Hearsay Social CEO Clara Shih, WWE Chief Brand Officer Stephanie McMahon, and Lean In lead researcher Marianne Cooper, as well as top executives from leading global companies such as Airbnb, Amazon, Coca - Cola, Google, IBM, NBCUniversal, Nike, Pandora, Target, Twitter, and WalmarIn lead researcher Marianne Cooper, as well as top executives from leading global companies such as Airbnb, Amazon, Coca - Cola, Google, IBM, NBCUniversal, Nike, Pandora, Target, Twitter, and Walmart.

On June 30, 2015, Women Who Tech held the first - ever Women Startup Challenge Pitch Competition at General Assembly / 1776 in Washington, D.C.

«I think his general attitude toward women was just, subtly, that we were less capable,» said Ms. Amin, a junior designer on one of the Nike apps, who added that she had received positive performance reviews since becoming an employee in 2014.

Simmilar to women, if Canadian employers were suddenly paying the same wages as men by rule of law, they would be firing more women, in general, women would take a fewer hours, and the man - cession term would not exist