Or ask your friends how many know men who feel emasculated because they earn
less than their female partner.
Some theories say couples are more likely to split up and less likely to marry when the male partner lacks full - time work or earns
less than his female partner.
Male speakers laughed
less than female speakers, but they still laughed 25 percent more than their listeners when they were talking to other men.
«Male dogs shed
less than female collies,» he says.
By age 35, typically males will even pay a bit
less than female drivers.
Not exact matches
In fact, a November 2017 report from CareerArc of 1,162 respondents found that
female job - seekers surveyed were 33 percent
less likely
than male job - seekers to apply to a one - star rated company.
It's a well - documented fact that
female founders receive
less venture capital funding
than their male counterparts.
Another culture that treats women as
less than men (such that
female infanticide still happens regularly), India, nevertheless, finds
females in 30 percent of programming jobs, compared with 21 percent in the U.S.
When it comes to financing business growth, the stats are grim: «Women raise 50 %
less capital
than men do,» explained Geri Stengel, president and founder of digital media and market - research agency Ventureneer and a Forbes columnist whose writing focuses on successful
female entrepreneurs, during a breakout session, «And, often, capital means success.»
Female founders received more venture capital funding in 2017 compared to previous years, but it was still far
less than their male counterparts.
There's no definitive answer as to why
female founders raise
less venture capital
than male founders, but one of the main theories is the lack of
female VCs.
The study, based on 940 businesses nationwide, also concluded that
female - and minority - owned ventures are far
less likely to be in good financial health
than their male - owned, non-minority counterparts.
And
female business ownership appears to be growing fastest among businesses without employees, which have
less economic impact
than other companies.
Understanding the Landscape: Access to Capital by High - Growth Women - Owned Businesses, research commissioned by the National Women's Business Council, recently released that
female entrepreneurs start companies with 50 percent
less capital
than male entrepreneurs.
She was the first
female engineer to work on offshore oil rigs in the UK — an environment that she's said was
less sexist
than her next workplace in the investment banking industry.
The study, conducted by Sameer B. Srivastava, Ph.D. and doctoral student Eliot Sherman at the University of California, Berkeley's Haas School of Business, found that low - performing women who switched from a male supervisor to a high - performing
female supervisor earned substantially
less than men who made a similar shift.
According to U.S. Department of Labor statistics,
female participation in the workforce was
less than 40 percent in 1960 but is predicted to reach 62 percent by the year 2015.
A new study also found that
female - and minority - owned ventures are far
less likely to be in good financial health
than their male - owned, non-minority counterparts.
According to an evaluation by Hired,
female candidates in the field are offered an average of four percent
less than their male counterparts, and «63 percent of the time women receive lower salary offers
than men for the same job at the same company.»
Burn says many men are surrounded by a culture that reduces women to sexualized objects, which normalizes
female colleague in a
less than professional manner.
Female - owned firms in the survey are 10 percent
less likely to hire their first employee, even after seven years,
than male - led firms, according to Fairlie and Miranda.
Female - owned firms in the survey are 10 percent
less likely to hire their first employee, even after seven years,
than male - led firms, according to
A British study found that women with visible tattoos were perceived as
less attractive, heavier drinkers, and more promiscuous
than females without any ink — which owes to stereotypes about women with tattoos.
The number of women, African - Americans and Hispanics employed at companies such as Google, Facebook and Yahoo lag far behind the U.S. work force as a whole; meanwhile, only 3 percent of venture funding is earmarked for
female founders, and founders of color claim
less than 1 percent, according to U.S. chief technology officer Megan Smith.
Even while more
than 126 million
female entrepreneurs were either starting or running new businesses in 2012 in the 67 countries measured, they are
less confident about their abilities
than men.
This is, of course, easier said
than done, but marketers can start by focusing
less on the nebulous objective of empowering women and instead push themselves to identify a real insight about the
female audience that can be tied back to the company or product in a meaningful way.
When it comes to leadership,
female executives tend to be a lot
less common
than male ones.
To bring attention to the fact that black women earn 17 %
less than their white
female counterparts and that black women are paid 63 % of the dollar men are paid.
While it may seem like raising outside money would actually make it easier to build such a company, even that achievement is often out of reach for women:
Less than 3 percent of venture capital goes to
female CEOs.
On Monday, Department of Labor officials claimed Google, who is a federal contractor, systematically pays
female workers
less than their male colleagues.
Google fought claims that its
female employees make
less than their male counterparts by outlining the methodology is uses to determine compensation on Tuesday.
Assuming I got along with both CEOs and enjoyed working with either of them equally, but the number of women - led ventures receiving venture investment was still disproportionately
less than their male counterparts, I would probably invest in the venture led by a
female CEO.
Take the underrepresentation of women among tech entrepreneurs together with an overwhelmingly male VC population (with their presumably dude - heavy networks and natural affinity for the types of companies that speak to men) and the result has been dismal amounts of investor dollars going to
female founders —
less than five percent just a decade ago.
From Uber's toxic workplace, to reports of venture capitalists harassing
female entrepreneurs, to that Google bro who posted that manifesto saying women tend to be more neurotic
than men even as the company undergoes a federal investigation into whether it pays women
less than men... none of this is good.
For patients younger
than 60, with a comparably high number of comorbidities,
female patients have
less diagnoses but take more drugs
than males.
While that's lower
than their share of the overall workforce, it's significantly higher
than the
less than 7 % of high - growth entrepreneurs who are
female.
As a whole,
females tended to graduate with
less debt
than their male counterparts, except for black
females who had $ 272 more in debt
than black males.
The report found that the average wages of young
female graduates are
less than for male graduates.
Snap Inc., owner of social chatting system Snapchat, was under fire in February for paying its sole
female board director far
less than her male counterparts.
An audit of their pay data concluded that the company had shortchanged 753
female consultants and managers, paying them
less than their male colleagues in similar positions.
The move, first reported by Bloomberg Law, would scale back a 2013 Obama - era policy, known as Directive 307, which had expanded the DOL's ability to investigate and sanction federal contractors that showed a pattern of paying
female workers and employees of color
less than their white male colleagues.
More
than half (57.6 %) of
female respondents worry about credit fraud while
less than half of males (48.2 %) are concerned about it.
Less than 2 % of the world's money is invested by women and the average make - up of
female investors in private companies is around 22 %.
Federal investigators last week revealed they have accused Google of paying its
female employees
less than its male employees — a charge the company denies.
The best evidence suggests that 1 to 3 percent of males are exclusively homosexual in their orientation (the number of
females is probably
less than half that), and by no means are all of those out of the closet «gays.»
What is
less clear to me is why complementarians like Keller insist that that 1 Timothy 2:12 is a part of biblical womanhood, but Acts 2 is not; why the presence of twelve male disciples implies restrictions on
female leadership, but the presence of the apostle Junia is inconsequential; why the Greco - Roman household codes represent God's ideal familial structure for husbands and wives, but not for slaves and masters; why the apostle Paul's instructions to Timothy about Ephesian women teaching in the church are universally applicable, but his instructions to Corinthian women regarding head coverings are culturally conditioned (even though Paul uses the same line of argumentation — appealing the creation narrative — to support both); why the poetry of Proverbs 31 is often applied prescriptively and other poetry is not; why Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob represent the supremecy of male leadership while Deborah and Huldah and Miriam are mere exceptions to the rule; why «wives submit to your husbands» carries more weight
than «submit one to another»; why the laws of the Old Testament are treated as irrelevant in one moment, but important enough to display in public courthouses and schools the next; why a feminist reading of the text represents a capitulation to culture but a reading that turns an ancient Near Eastern text into an apologetic for the post-Industrial Revolution nuclear family is not; why the curse of Genesis 3 has the final word on gender relationships rather
than the new creation that began at the resurrection.
Miller and Hoffmann said that only one other gender difference is similar to the one involving religion:
females are far
less likely
than males to commit violent crimes.
From the words we speak to get through the day and the colorful messages we use to insult one another every
female of every age on this planet is fed a constant stream of reminders we are simply
lesser creatures
than males.
project, directed by Mason, the first
female dean of the Graduate Division of the University of California, Berkeley, found that women who had children within five years of receiving their doctorates were far
less likely
than men who had done so to acquire tenured professorships.
Gender and Family in the Ivory Tower, Mary Ann Mason reports that while women in so - called «fast - track professions» have fewer children
than does the average American woman,
female faculty are almost half as likely as
female physicians and slightly
less likely
than female lawyers to have a child at all, even though academia offers far more flexible hours
than the average law firm or hospital.