Sentences with phrase «led by a woman»

These power centers are starting to have an impact, both through their investments and by convincing others that companies led by women are an undervalued asset class — one that will deliver superior returns.

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).

Women own about 36 percent of U.S. businesses; just 10 percent of Inc. 500 companies are led by women.

Like most VC firms, its goal is to make smart bets and earn strong returns — but that's exactly why 40 % of the portfolio companies in Aspect's first fund were led by women.

Only 2.7 percent of venture - funded companies are led by women, according to a 2014 report by Babson College.

Currently, only 3 % of America's venture capital - backed startups are led by women, and only about 4 % percent of US - based venture capital investors are women.

Digitalundivided is a nonprofit that helps provide networks, coaching, and access to capital to tech startups led by women of color.

The southern capital has long been recognized for its wealth of Fortune 500 companies, and it's now home to 10 of the fastest - growing, private businesses led by women.

She founded a VC fund that's investing in portfolio companies led by women, and is creating a platform to empower and better equip female entrepreneurs.

The budget also included $ 105 million over five years to regional development agencies to support investment in businesses led by women and $ 10 million over five years to connect women with expanded export services.

I don't invest in women - led ventures just because they are led by women.

When women - led ventures are underrepresented in terms of securing venture investment, I will have the propensity to direct investment dollars towards high potential ventures led by women.

I've passed on opportunities to invest in ventures where I didn't trust the CEO or felt the relationship lacked alignment or the problem or solution presented wasn't compelling - these were led by women and men.

This morning, the Wall Street Journal reported on funds that choose to tie their fates to the performance of companies led by women.

Only 6 % of VC partners today are women, Gates added, and a mere 3 % of companies led by women get VC funding.

Under 10 percent of venture funded companies are founded and led by women, Young said.

Under Ms. Vosmek's leadership, Astia is now the pre-eminent organization working to ensure the success of high - growth startups founded and led by women.

«When women VCs are making investment decisions, they're more likely to invest in companies with a woman on the management team, or that are led by a woman CEO,» she said.

And several other studies, including one from Scandinavian bank Nordea, found that companies perform better when led by women.

Multiple studiesand reports during the past seven years alone have found that companies led by women or with women on the executive team outperform those that don't.

The total funding raised on Kickstarter for ventures led by women is a whopping 35 %!

Multiple studies and reports during the past seven years alone have found that companies led by women or with women on the executive team outperform those that don't.

Springboard accelerates the growth of entrepreneurial companies led by women through access to essential resources and a global community of experts.

Now, Rupp is a general partner at True Wealth Ventures, a new $ 20 million fund that invests in early - stage ventures led by women.

Would it be one that lead by a woman or a man?

In former times there were women's mosques in some parts of China, used as religious and charitable centers for women and led by women religious teachers.

And you can't tell me that just because you have been led by women means that I should!

We went to a multiples birth class too, led by a woman who had twins.

However, those who imagine a utopia of a world led by women are influenced by another, supposedly progressive, form of differentialism: the alleged natural differences between the sexes can be used to improve not just female condition but also strive towards a more just society.

Most of those holding this vision would probably rule out a world led by women as being something unrealistic and unnatural, because of a supposed innate tendency to focus on family and caring activities rather than engaging in competitive, aggressive and confrontational interactions typical of politics.

The unfolding of events in the weeks leading up to the vote on 10 December demonstrated two key points: firstly, the importance of the Labour left taking a clear campaigning stand against such anti-woman, anti-working class and deeply unpopular policies; secondly, the crucial role played by a campaign led by women — the Save Lone Parent Benefit campaign — and orientated to linking up with parliamentary and labour movement opposition.

Now, the chairs of the budget oversight committees of both the Senate and Assembly are now led by women.

Less than a week after the Weinstein Co. seemed destined for bankruptcy, a deal emerged for an investment group to buy assets from the troubled firm in order to launch a new movie studio that will be led by women.

Led by the women leader in the area, Deaconess Martha Philip, the protesters carried placards with inscriptions: «We believe in Udom Dakada spirit but herdsmen is our bane.»

WHEREAS, Santa Clara County was at one point known as the Feminist Capital of the World, with Janet Gray Hayes serving as the first woman elected Mayor of a major US city as part of a San Jose City Council with seven women, (including a female vice-mayor) at the same time as the San Jose Chamber of Commerce was led by a woman; as of August, only two women serve on the eleven member San Jose City Council and only one woman serves on the five member County Board of Supervisors; and

It is now the case that of all the parties represented in our Westminster parliament, more are led by women than men.

Additionally, households led by women, minorities or individuals with low education are more likely to be poor, but employed.

We're supporting women in the culinary industry by pledging to eat at and order from restaurants led by women.

This March, we're encouraging you to dine in or carry out from restaurants led by women.

Blanchett concluded by suggesting the relative box office success of «Blue Jasmine» shows audiences are «interested in stories led by women, and they can also make money.»

The road movie, transporting captive mothers out of harm, had to be led by a woman — «it'd be a very different movie if one man was taking women away from another man» says Miller.

He chose a team led by women, Hannah Beachler as his production designer and Rachel Morrison as his cinematographer.

Also the author of The New York Times best - selling book «Suck It Wonder Woman: The Misadventures of a Hollywood Geek,» Munn and five other women in November accused film producer and director Brett Ratner of sexual misconduct, and she has become an active supporter of the Times Up Initiative, led by women in the entertainment industry to provide legal defense funds to help less privileged women protect themselves from sexual misconduct.

It's exactly the kind of film that money - focused studios are afraid of — intelligent, thoughtful and led by women in a genre whose «traditional» fanbase skews male.

But there was one interesting thing - in 2017, movies led by women took the top three spots for the highest - grossing movies in the U.S. and Canada.

MCEVERS: This is the first time since 1958 that so many movies led by women topped the box office in a single year.

It's one thing to watch a family working to find a missing dog; it's another to have them lead by a woman who believes she senses where the dog has run off to.

This year alone, they released six of the most inventive, quality offerings out there: two terrifying survival thrillers, Damien Power's devastating and brilliant Killing Ground and Sam Patton's lesser but still - worthy Desolation; Sean Byrne's masterful tale of artistic obsession and satanic possession The Devil's Candy (all three even harder to endure because the featured families in peril are so human and likable); A Dark Song, an unnerving occult thriller in which a woman hires a medium to help make contact with her dead daughter; and House on Willow Street, which, similar to last year's horror highlight Don't Breathe, sees a house robbery — led by a woman with a mission, played by modern scream - queen Sharni Vinson — go terrible wrong, but this time in a more supernatural way.

My own Twitter feed was lit up on this story by angry dismissals of Emmett's assertions that there might be an influence on what's offered in children's work by a young people's industry led by women, but the Times story was followed by some thoughtful comment, such as:

And they're going to talk about just that: the issues and implications that swirl around the fact that in international publishing, although the main part of the workforce might be female, the executive suites are rarely led by women.