Sentences with phrase «likely as female»

Female dogs are twice as likely as male dogs to become diabetic, but male cats are one - and - a-half times as likely as female cats to develop the disease.

Best Actor nominees are almost twice as likely as their female counterparts to have starred in Best Picture - nominated films.

For example, male drivers were more than three times as likely as female drivers to have gotten out of a vehicle to confront another driver or rammed another vehicle on purpose.

More than 70 percent of the patients reported being told that treatment may affect their fertility; however, male patients were more than twice as likely as female patients to report that fertility preservation options were discussed.

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.

Male donors are roughly twice as likely as female donors to have contributed to six or more projects, and are also nearly twice as likely to have contributed more than $ 100 to an individual project.

Not exact matches

That's partly because 94 percent of investing partners at venture firms are male and, female entrepreneurs say, less likely to understand the potential of a business that specifically targets women as customers.

As researchers flood the two areas with these infected male mosquitoes, the females living there will be less likely to find uninfected males to mate with, so each life cycle should lead to far fewer new mosquitoes.

According to Ellyn Shook, Accenture's human resources chief, female employees of companies who take this stuff seriously are four times as likely to reach senior manager and director levels, and see an average pay increase of 51 %.

A recent study from Babson College found that venture capital firms with female partners are more than three times as likely to invest in companies with female CEOs than firms led by all - male teams, but the percentage of women in the VC industry has dropped from 10 % to 6 % since 1999 — and only 2.7 % of VC - backed companies have a female CEO.

If male managers hold on to an unconscious fear that women will be more likely to react emotionally to feedback, their female reports will not receive the same coaching opportunities as their male peers.

Based solely on the applicants» appearances, the hiring managers, who were both male and female, were twice as likely to hire a man.

In any case, based on this subset of data, there is evidence that, as the influence of female investors in partnerships expands, there is likely to be a benefit for female founders.

VC firms with female partners are more than twice as likely to invest in companies with a woman on the management team (34 % of VC firms with a woman partner versus 13 % of VC firms without a woman partner), according to Diana Report Women Entrepreneurs 2014: Bridging the Gender Gap in Venture Capital.

Clark, named the country's least popular premier last week, can't seem to connect with women (female voters are twice as likely to vote NDP in May, according to polls).

Venture firms with women as partners are three times as likely to invest in a company with a female chief executive and twice as likely to invest in one with women on the management team, according to the Babson College report.

Finally, by making it necessary that elections be conducted as contests of like against like (female against female, minority against minority, etc.) the system extended vast powers to the nominating process and enabled those in power to recruit just those board members most likely to agree with their purposes and keep them in power.

How is it that today's generation of Christian women are more likely to list a celebrity like Angelina Jolie as their hero rather than a mentor, leader, or female friend in their own congregation?

From a Whiteheadian point of view, one expects that bodily differences do have an effect on personality traits, so that the characteristic differences between the male and female body would be likely to be accompanied by tendencies to personality difference as well.

More generally, one is likely to be struck by the extent to which the book addresses itself to a world of male «female relations and childrearing that has been, for better or worse, consigned to the past, as vanished as the code of chivalry» although preserved in Freidan's book as (like Whyte's conformism) a summum malum ever to be guarded against.

To believe such absurdity and vilify gender inequality is likely due in part to insecurities about yourself and fear, yes fear, that the female gender is as capable and deserving.

Then, when female characters did appear, they were more than three times as likely as men to be sexualized.

On the positive side, study after study supports that when a culture values females as much as males, girls are more likely to survive to adulthood.

(2) Buddenbaum, in 1979, found that regular viewers of religious television programs are twice as likely to be female as male.

The research also reveals that while comfort food might traditionally be more associated with a female audience, it is men who are far more likely to turn to savoury snacks as a means of relaxing.

But the striking aspect of this report was the selection of issues the reporter went on to discuss as those likely to capture the female vote.

And in television commercials, females are 50 % more often to be seen as parents, 50 % more likely to be nurturing or comforting a child, and 600 % percent more likely to be involved in teaching a child.

Ghanaians are likely to have another female Chief Justice (CJ) as the Council of State considers the nomination of President Akufo - Addo for the coveted position.

Bringing in elections would make many more MPs likely to put themselves forward, including female MPs such as Lucy Powell, Luciana Berger and Seema Malhotra.

While the designer thought the finished product felt «a little weak,» he said the effort was likely an attempt by the campaign to emphasize Quinn's status as the race's only female candidate — while perhaps trying to play down her perceived brashness.

WHEREAS, research shows that women are substantially less likely to self - select or be recruited for elective office, this gender gap in political ambition persists across generations and over time and that qualified female candidates who are equally or more qualified than men are often seen as less qualified or less viable than male candidates; and WHEREAS, research confirms that the presence of more women in a governing body leads to greater transparency and a focus on progressive policies such as closing the funding and achievement gaps in education, closing gaps or loopholes in contraception coverage and affordable health care, closing the wage gap, and removing obstacles that contribute to poverty of women & children; and

Female geoscientists are less likely to be described as excelling beyond other students than their male counterparts are, according to a study of recommendation letters for highly selective postdoctoral fellowships published today in Nature Geoscience.

The researchers found that male applicants were more likely than female applicants to receive «excellent» letters, characterized by comments such as «brilliant scientist,» «trailblazer,» and «one of the best students I've ever had.»

Female geoscientists applying for selective fellowships are less likely to be described as «brilliant,» «trailblazer,» or «one of the best students I've ever had,» study finds

Like crickets, cicadas and frogs, male corvina produce a thumping love song that likely acts as a come - hither signal for females.

The trend seems clear, but the authors did admit that» [w] e can not exclude the possibility that females commit research misconduct as frequently as males but are less likely to be detected.»

But in species where males have a greater role in rearing young than females — such as seahorses and certain frogs and birds — it's the females that are more likely to compete violently with each other.

So anything that affects the ability of females to provide parental care, such as costly mating, is likely to reduce overall reproductive productivity.

Eggs in warm nests are likely to hatch as females, while cooler nests produce males, although no one is sure why.

In an example that has been getting wide attention in the media — both journalistic and social — University of Hawaii, Manoa, geobiologist A. Hope Jahren, a full professor who has spent decades building a successful career in academe, warns fellow female scientists of one pattern they are pretty likely to encounter as they try to make their way in academic science: the telltale strategy of a male colleague or superior bent on an exploitative sexual relationship.

Poland and Slovenia emerge as the most female - friendly countries, with men only twice as likely to reach higher positions.

Female Ph.D. scientists «who do not secure ladder - track [i.e., tenure - track] appointments,» they add, «are more likely to stay in academia [than men], either as contingent instructors or in nonteaching appointments.»

Women are almost twice as likely to be affected as men, and young individuals — both male and female — under 35 years of age are disproportionately affected.

«High GPA could work against young women job hunters: Men who excel in college twice as likely to get callback as female peers.»

Garnett's study found that students experiencing polyvictimization were most likely to identify as female and transgender.

As females recognise healthy males quite well based on odour, and are more attracted to them, they may be more likely to find healthy males in the wild.

Female inmates with a TBI, compared to males, were much more likely to have suffered physical or sexual abuse as children,» said Colantonio, Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Research Chair in Gender, Work, and Health, University of Toronto.

After analyzing the survey results, psychologists split the difference, showing that females, on average, were about twice as likely to associate cash flow with love and emotion, whereas men were about twice as likely to see money as a sign of power and freedom, though the feelings were not mutually exclusive.

When healthy females were mated with infected and uninfected male mice, the females paired with infected males were about four times less likely to become pregnant as those paired with uninfected males.

«International students, both male and female, are less likely to enter as first - year freshmen and report lower rates of drug use, binge drinking and having a disability.»