Sentences with phrase «many women in professions»

When I started as an accountant, in 1980, roughly, there was less than 10 % of women in the profession.

Although men outnumbered women in the profession in Vermont, where I grew up, I always knew at least two or three women who were serving churches.

She described for us how she and other «first - stage» feminists fought to restore a fully legitimate place for women in the professions and in careers, a place they had won in the twenties and thirties but lost again as the post-war «feminine mystique» tightened its grip.

On Wednesday, Lavelle provided an update, writing that McNutt's nomination «has won praise as a move that will bolster women in the profession while providing knowledgeable leadership in the policy challenges ahead on climate change.»

There are a dizzying number of factors forcing American women in all professions out of the workforce: Problems such as no paid maternity leave and the still - there - even - though - its - 2017 wage gap are just the tip of the iceberg.

If there is anyone out there who has said this kind of thing to a woman in your profession, here's what it does: It tells a woman that there is a certain way a scientist should look.

The seventies was another key period for women in professions.

She helped lead the way for women in her profession.

As a «recovering architect» herself, Kim wanted to highlight women in the profession — but we understand that «woman architect» didn't send the message as intended.

As the face of the legal profession continues to change, women's initiatives have already begun to adapt to the needs of women in the profession.

Studies that look primarily at the role of women in the profession are not included.

In an announcement, the Barreau said Prémont is «an experienced administrator» who's been involved in a number of committees, including serving as chair of the Barreau's committee for women in the profession.

Just as numbers do not tell the full story of women and law, simply fixating on the ratios of women in the profession does fully address years of systematic inequality pervasive in the legal system.

The LSUC's Justicia project, which focuses on women in the profession, has been embraced by the legal community.

At first, Ria Guidone was floored when she was told to «seduce the court,» but it helped open up a conversation about women in the profession.

Most of all, it bears out that when it comes to the success of women in the profession, so much has changed (presumably, firms no longer reject female candidates with Ginsburg's credentials), yet so much still remains the same: While law firm policies are important, ultimately, it takes a family (in Ginsburg's case, a supportive husband and in - laws) and an ability to overcome adversity for women to maximize their professional potential in the law.

Ellen is particularly known for her expertise on the challenges faced by women in the profession and has been invited to address numerous audiences — including the Department of Justice Canada, the Center for Legal Inclusiveness, Harvard Law School's Women's Leadership Summit, the Center for Women in the Law, the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law's Women Leadership & Equality Program and bar and women attorney's groups on the national and local level throughout the US and Europe — on strategies for advancing women attorneys.

This is true at the BigLaw level as well, where diversity — both in terms of people of color and in terms of advancing the role of women in a profession where they are far less likely to end up at the top — seems to be framed simultaneously as incredibly important but also impossible.

Now, 15 years later, the Law Society of Upper Canada has released its report on retaining women in the profession and many of the same issues raised by Wilson are still present: a high proportion of women enter the legal profession at the initial entry level (more than 50 per cent of lawyers called to the bar are female), and that there is a higher attrition rate for women than men from private practice.

At the time, she made over 200 recommendations for improving the lot of women in the profession.

«She's been a tremendous role model to women in the profession.»

For decades, probably ever since women began practising law in Canada, there has been no shortage of discussion about how to keep women in the profession.

I am particularly passionate about helping women in the profession to achieve their career goals.

Alongside a stellar commercial practice, Roberta has promoted the advancement of female lawyers through serving as the chair of numerous commissions on women in the profession.

He, too, has also made diversity a priority, and was recently given a Catalyst Canada Honours award for promotion of women in the profession.

Besides the fact that I don't think we advance women in the profession by labeling any of us «girls,» I was surprised to see Blakely splicing and dicing women into categories like this.

I hope all those directions, all those different pressures come all together at once and we see some big changes because we haven't seen change in the gender equity attrition rates and so on of women in this profession in quite a few years.

I will reserve a future post to explore some thoughts on what is said at the AALS program, but it is particularly fitting to have the Justice at this joint program since, in addition to her pivotal role in the modern history of women's rights, she was also a founder of the Section for Women in Legal Education and a trailblazer for women in our profession, as this paper by Herma Hill Kay, this year's recipient of the Women in Legal Education section's Ruth Bader Ginsburg Lifetime Achievement Award, sets out so well.

In the 1980s, as chair of the ABA's newly formed women's commission, Hillary Clinton signed off on the first - ever ABA report on the status of women in the profession.

Earlier this year at the Canadian Corporate Counsel Association meeting, she once again challenged the profession to engage in a «richer debate» on the question of why there aren't more women in the profession and on the bench.

CALGARY — The woman with the top job at the Supreme Court of Canada is challenging the legal profession and business community to engage in a «richer debate» on the question of why there aren't more women in the profession.

In 1984, DWLA incorporated as a non-profit corporation, and included in its purposes uniting for the mutual benefit of women attorneys and elevating the standards of women in the profession.

Child - bearing and - rearing issues also contribute to the stuck - in - idle status of women in the profession.

Calvert also co-founded the Project for Attorney Retention (PAR), which works to reduce unwanted attrition among lawyers by promoting the retention and advancement of women in the profession.

Finding that balance between work and family / private life is critical to keeping women in the profession, says fellow winner Joëlle Boisvert, Gowlings» Montreal managing partner.

Like most women in any profession, my greatest challenge has been balancing the demands of home and work.

Yet, despite some isolated efforts to hire and retain more female attorneys and promote more women into partnership, little tangible progress has been made to improve the position of women in the profession...

The Coalition is one of the only organizations of its kind in the nation, with chapters in Chicago and New York City and more than 150 law firms and companies that work together to facilitate the advancement of women in the profession.

«I repeatedly advise women in my profession to think of it from the perspective of the employer: if you demonstrate good negotiating skills for yourself, they know you'll be good at negotiating for the organization,» she says.

Surely, after years and years of organized efforts, these initiatives must have led to great strides for women in our profession, with more and more women moving up the ladder to take leadership roles in their firms, right?

Every day, the 100,000 men and women in the profession compete vigorously with each other and with unlicensed, unregulated alternatives.

Not exact matches

Tokyo and Munich, in particular, coincided with the graphic design profession's coming of age, Hulse notes, when some now - universally recognized visual shorthands came into being, such as the men's and women's symbols on bathroom doors.

Forty - four major law firms and 55 corporate legal departments are teaming up to boost diversity in the legal profession by drawing on two inspirational figures: the late Dan Rooney, beloved owner of the Pittsburgh Steelers, and Arabella Mansfield, a 19th century women's rights activist who became the first American woman admitted into the legal profession in 1869.

Young women are simply losing interest in these fields as an area of study and a profession as they progress from middle school to high school to college.

I mean, I just find that the women candidates that we have running right now — and they are diverse in geography, in race, in profession, in life experience — are the bridges.

Smith said Crawford took pride in advancing the careers of women in the legal profession and established a team - based, client - focused culture that continues to be the style at Osler.

«In these professions, being attractive was highly detrimental to women,» said Stefanie Johnson, a University of Colorado - Denver business school professor and one of the study's authors.

For example, women who operate sewing machine operators make 111 % of what men in that profession make, according to BLS data.

Beth Seidenberg, a partner at KPCB, suggests, «Women need to see role models in the profession to know what is possible... The first thing we need to do is fix the top of the funnel.

The actress said in a statement to the New York Times that any financial recuperation from the lawsuit would be donated to Time's Up «so that women and men in all professions may have legal redress for sexual harassment, economic retaliation and damage to their careers.»