Sentences with phrase «last year female»

Not exact matches

Mattel did this last year in their quest to evolve Barbie into a more true - to - life body type: They brought together a group of carefully selected female leaders, including Canadian icon Erica Ehm.

Canadian companies even have a new resource to turn to in their quest for female candidates: a recruiting firm launched last year by Pamela Jeffery, founder of the Women's Executive Network.

Industry - wide, female founders received 2 % of all venture funding last year.

Female founders received 2 % of all venture funding last year.

According to the article, the female chief executives at S&P 500 companies out - earned their male counterparts last year, with a median compensation package of $ 13.8 million.

He said late last year that he wanted to «change the world» with start - up investing and that he wanted to see at least one female interviewed for each opening in a start - up.

Amid controversy and fanfare, regulators last year approved a pill called Addyi, which became the first medicine for combating female sexual dysfunction.

The firm's analysis of the so - called Equilar 100 (top 100 companies by revenue) finds that the female CEOs in this group earned an average $ 22.7 million last year, while the male chiefs took home an average $ 14.9 million.

Last year, single female homeowners made up 18 percent of household composition in the association's Profile of Home Buyers and Sellers, compared to 10 percent for single men.

The absolute number of startups in Crunchbase with at least one female founder has more than quadrupled in the last five years, from 117 in 2009 to 555 in 2014.

According to research published last year in Psychology of Women Quarterly, people making hiring decisions — even those who profess to believe in gender equality — overwhelmingly associate qualified female candidates with diminished competence.

Murdoch University has appointed Eeva Leinonen as its first female vice-chancellor, replacing Richard Higgott who resigned last year after being investigated by the Corruption and Crime Commission.

In another twist, last year State Street paid $ 5 million to settle allegations it underpaid female and minority employees.

Zzyym's lawsuit, filed last year by the LGBT rights legal firm Lambda Legal Defense Fund in federal court in Denver, argued that the policy of requiring either a male or female designation on passport applications violated due process and equal protection rights for intersex people.

Median pay for the highest - paid female executives at publicly traded companies edged down to $ 13.8 million last year from $ 14.7 million in 2012.

Much like the success of last year's Warner Bros. film Wonder Woman helped change the conversation around a female superhero movie helmed by a woman director, a box - office smashing debut for Black Panther could pave the way for a similar paradigm shift in Hollywood with regard to how studios approach big - budget stories about characters of color.

Last year, Adobe announced that all of its male and female employees in the U.S. are now receiving equal pay for equal work.

For example, Berekeley Haas» female student population has grown from 29 % to 41 % in the last two years alone (it has grown by five full percentage points at both Booth and Kellogg in the last year).

At the same time, female founders received a mere $ 1.46 billion in funding last year, compared to the $ 58.2 billion haul of companies with all - male founders.

(Alexander, whose last major movie was the 2010 drama Lifted, wrote last year: «There is no lack of female directors.

Jess Lee, the former CEO of fashion shopping site Polyvore who was named Sequoia Capital's first U.S. female investing partner last year, is on Monday unveiling a networking initiative for female company founders.

O'Neill proceeded to lay out how in «the last 50 years» he «was sexually intimate with approximately 50 very attractive females.»

As advertisers leveraged this trend last year, their challenge was to provide a real insight about the female audience that could also be tied to the product or company in a meaningful way.

The median pay for a female CEO was $ 13.1 million last year, up 9 % from 2015, according to an analysis by executive data firm Equilar and The Associated Press.

It's also nearly equal to the market cap of Pepsi (pep), the 119 - year old snack and beverage company that's CEO last week said that Trump's presidential win has left her female employees asking if they are safe.

Last year, men celebrated the event by donning dresses and high heels to hike up a mountain in Guangdong Province, and five female activists were arrested for planning a protest against sexual harassment.

Late last year a driver in Delhi had been sentenced to life in prison after he had been found guilty of raping a female passenger.

Ever since the Ontario Securities Commission implemented a rule last year that TSX - listed companies must address gender diversity on their boards or explain why they haven't, corporate Canada has been scrambling to hire female directors.

Compensation for female chief financial officers at S&P 500 companies last year outpaced that of their male counterparts, according to an analysis by executive compensation firm Equilar and the Associated Press.

Female leads comprised 24 % of protagonists in the 100 top domestic grossing films last year — five percentage points fewer than in 2016.

Despite the fact that 1 in 5 tech entrepreneurs are female, only 2 % of venture financing last year went to women - led startups.

If I'm able to connect with other females and share with them the experiences I've had over the last 16 years, positive and negative, then it makes all of us stronger and better.»

The league launched Women Officiating Now, a subset of their recruiting efforts, which focuses on bringing more women to training workshops and sponsors events for female officials, including one last year with the International Women's Football League.

The high median pay for female CFOs is partly a result of sample size — there were only 60 female CFOs at the S&P 500 companies that qualified for inclusion in the study during the last fiscal year, compared with 437 men, according to Equilar.

Millman's company has helped 445 female - led companies connect with angel, venture and corporate investors to raise about $ 5.5 billion in equity financing over the last 11 years.

Reviewing the data over the last 10 years, 2015 is the first year that companies with at least one female founder have broken through the threshold of 10 percent of venture dollars.

In the last three years, according to CrunchBase data, 16 percent of newly launched venture and micro-venture firms, 20 firms in all, had at least one female founder.

This is a less - well - explored area but one that CrunchBase is well - suited to address because of its efforts last year to sharpen its data on women co-founders and this year to do the same with data on female venture capitalists.

At the 29 firms founded by at least one female co-founder in the last five years, fully half of the investing partners are women.

Female founders represented 7 percent of venture - backed companies in an analysis by Bloomberg last year.

In a study posted in May last year, CrunchBase reported the percentage of funded startups with at least one female founder increased from 9 percent to 18 percent between 2009 and 2014.

The company also dropped some men and added some female executives, lowering its percentage of male executives from 76 percent to 69 percent last year.

For example, you might post to your Facebook wall «If you're a female office administrator out of college in the last five years, we're curious to know what you majored in as an undergraduate.»

The number of female billionaires in the world is up more than 12 % as a record 256 women made it on to the Forbes 2018 billionaires list, up from 227 last year.

The median pay for a female CEO was $ 13.1 million last year, up 9 percent from 2015, according to an analysis by executive data firm...

The median pay for a female CEO was $ 13.1 million last year, up 9 percent from 2015, according to an analysis by executive data firm Equilar and The Associated Press.

The company has agreed to settle a discrimination lawsuit filed last year by three female software engineers for $ 10 million.

A large portion of its fans are China's female mobile phone gamers whose numbers have risen sharply over the last year to 367 million, according to the newest report from Jiguang.

Who do you think is the best example of a well written strong female character in TV and movies you've seen in the last few years?

Last week the General Synod voted to pass legislation that mean females could be in the Church's top jobs by the end of the year.