Sentences with phrase «increasing number of females»

By following TechGirls» advice, TWG increased its number of female employees by 15 % in a year, and has a clear plan to further balance its ratios in years ahead.

In addition to providing female developers with experience, Toptal's goal is to increase the number of female educators and mentors in the industry.

If successful, TheBoardlist could create a much larger pool of potential candidates and increase the number of female role models in the tech industry.

If increasing numbers of female undergraduates show signs of depression, it can not have anything to do with the sexual anomie into which the society has delivered them.

Similarly, the increasing number of female prostitutes with AIDS is related to female poverty and the tragedy of battered women.)

Our objectives include: recruit at least 100 new Hispanic legislative candidates across the country, increase the number of female Republican legislative candidates and partner with the College Republican National Committee for a national youth training and mobilization program.

Political parties have increased the numbers of female legislative candidates.

The Lib Dem conference in Glasgow today agreed to force senior party figures to undergo the training before they can take up the role, in a bid to increase the number of female candidates for standing for Parliament and local councils.

But this approach fails to increase the number of female STEM faculty nationally.

ADVANCE supports efforts to increase the number of female faculty in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.

For that reason, an increasing number of female college seniors are turning to matchmakers, seeking marriage as a buffer from temporary unemployment.

But on the other hand, our review team would like to see the site working to increase the number of female sugar babies in the UK.

Over the past few years, there has been an increasing number of female superheroes introduced in the MCU.

At this year's Television Critics Association, NBC formally launched their «Female Forward Initiative,» increasing the number of female directors on the popular network's list of programs slated for Fall.

The Academy has been slowly increasing the number of its female, minority and foreign - born members in recent years, battling criticism that the 7,000 - member organization is too old, too male and too white.

Maryan Daqal Xussen says while as an NGOs they have taken cases to court, notes that judiciary staff, «need training as sometimes it's not easy to get justice» and this could be coupled with an increased number of female judicial officers.

The other major difference between men and women, which may provide an important clue on how to increase the number of female entrepreneurs in the economy, was what motivated them to start their own business.

Polar bears are one of the most sensitive Arctic marine mammals to climate warming because they spend most of their lives on sea ice.35 Declining sea ice in northern Alaska is associated with smaller bears, probably because of less successful hunting of seals, which are themselves ice - dependent and so are projected to decline with diminishing ice and snow cover.36, 37,38,39 Although bears can give birth to cubs on sea ice, increasing numbers of female bears now come ashore in Alaska in the summer and fall40 and den on land.41 In Hudson Bay, Canada, the most studied population in the Arctic, sea ice is now absent for three weeks longer than just a few decades ago, resulting in less body fat, reduced survival of both the youngest and oldest bears, 42 and a population now estimated to be in decline43 and projected to be in jeopardy.44 Similar polar bear population declines are projected for the Beaufort Sea region.45

There is an increasing number of female role models and mentors who are succeeding at law firms.

Recruiters also charge that Eversheds is looking for a scapegoat for lack of diversity now that clients like Tyco are pressuring the firm to increase the number of female and minority partners.

Many firms have adopted gender targets to increase their number of female partners to 30 % during the next few years — but even then it means that seven out of every 10 partners will still be male.

We have increased the number of female and openly gay attorneys and representation of minorities in leadership positions.

In addition, von Boetticher implemented a document management system and has increased the number of female lawyers working in the department.

Is Transwestern taking any steps to increase the number of female executives?

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The percentage of women coached by women has declined to an all - time low, even while Title IX, which prohibits sex - based discrimination in any education program or activity that receives federal dollars, has dramatically increased participation numbers for female athletes.

As more women hold lucrative positions, the number of female billionaires worldwide continues to increase: There are now 145 female billionaires, up from 22 in 1995.

The social media site has been transparent with their numbers and made «modest progress» over the past year, increasing the share of female employees to 40 % from 42 %.

«Greater participation of women in boardrooms is necessary and the way to do this is to increase the number of senior female executives from which board members can be drawn,» said Carrie Hartnell, associate director of Intellect's Women in IT Forum.

Sara Brand, founding general partner of True Wealth Ventures, proposed her solution to getting additional VC funding for female startup founders and increasing the number of women becoming VC partners during the Austin Business Journal's Face 2 Face interview.

Julie Hembrock Daum, who leads the North American Board Practice, highlights key findings from the 2017 Spencer Stuart U.S. Board Index, including increases in the number of first - time and female directors and changes in director skills and backgrounds.

But the numbers of elected female legislators haven't significantly increased.

As an increasing number of women and mothers participate in the workforce, federal and state laws and policies have not met the needs of both male and female workers who must balance taking care of themselves and their families with the responsibilities of work.

Labour's first openly gay female MP calls on party to increase number of BAME and LGBT people in influential positions

Also getting a good spot at the front is Baroness Sal Brinton, the wheelchair - bound Liberal Democrat president who previously chaired the party's diversity engagement group aimed at increasing the number of black and female Lib Dems.

However, the CBI pointed to increasing numbers of young women rising to senior roles in business with 28 per cent of directors aged 18 - 29 being female.

That could help increase the number of potential male heirs to a monarchy that does not allow females to ascend the Chrysanthemum Throne.

The election led to an increase in the number of female MPs, to 191 (29 % of the total, including 99 Labour; 68 Conservative; 20 SNP; 4 other) from 147 (23 % of the total, including 87 Labour; 47 Conservative; 7 Liberal Democrat; 1 SNP; 5 other).

Despite the steady increase in the number of female MPs across the committee system, the two most recently created select committees — the International Trade and Exiting the European Union committees — both have male chairs, and their members are predominantly male.

But if these two female candidates prevail, Republicans have a reasonable chance at increasing the net number of women in the House Republican Conference next Congress.

This is important because the role of a select committee chair is a high profile, influential one; an increase in the number of female chairs has a direct impact on the visibility of women in Parliament, and may encourage more women to play a role in the committee system and politics itself.

Although progress is slow, the overall number of female chairs across the committee system has gradually increased due to a cohort effect, as the percentage of women in Parliament has increased.

While the undisputed single biggest shift in the new intake is the dramatic increase in Scottish National party MPs at Westminster, equality campaigners are celebrating record numbers of women with almost one in three MPs now female.

Between 2002 and 2006, the number of female Ph.D. graduates increased faster than the number of male Ph.D. graduates — but in 2006, the number of women earning those degrees stopped growing and the number of men earning degrees started to decline.

Although the actual absolute numbers have increased when compared with 2009 (the year for which there are World Health Organization mortality data for most EU countries) due to the growing numbers of elderly people, the rate (age - standardised per 100,000 of the population) of people who die from the disease has declined from 148.3 male and 89.1 female deaths per 100,000 in 2009 to 138.1 deaths and 84.7 per 100,000 predicted for 2014.

They found that this unusual mating scenario led to an increase in the number of individuals that a female is related to in her group as she ages — a trend that favors younger breeders and older child - rearing helpers.

Men dominate S&E professorships, regardless of field and race.10 Among the top 50 universities in chemistry, physics, computer science, mathematics, and engineering, at least 69 % (most times this number is much higher) of the professors are men, according to a report recently released by University of Oklahoma chemistry professor Dr. Donna Nelson.9 The lack of female professors was far greater among minority women.9 Although the number of master's degrees and doctorates increased for every racial and gender category, except for white males, 1 white — and, to a lesser extent, Asian — men constituted the clear majority of S&E graduate and faculty positions between 1990 and 1999.9

The researchers found that female mice given LPA - containing serum or LPA alone displayed hyperactivity upon stimulation, showed anxiety and had increased numbers of dopamine - producing neurons — all which are characteristic of schizophrenia and other psychiatric disorders.

«[T] he number of women on the editorial board increased and female editors invited more female reviewers than did male editors,» the authors write.

While prevalence declined, because of the growth in population older than 15 years of age, there has been a continuous increase in the number of men and women who smoke daily, increasing from 721 million in 1980 to 967 million in 2012, with a 41 percent increase in the number of male daily smokers and a 7 percent increase for female smokers.

In addition to normal ovarian development, the increased number of gonocytes (fetal and neonatal germ cells) is sufficient for male - to - female sex reversal in XY medaka.