Sentences with phrase «many women of color»

Women of color.

A couple years ago, Karen Okonkwo had a difficult time finding photos of women of color for her blog, Sorority Secrets.

Carla Harris, chair of the National Women's Business Council, suggests that women of color may have been more likely to have been laid off during the beginning of the great recession, and so may have been more likely to need entrepreneurship as an alternative way to make a living.

Overall, the number of businesses owned by women of color jumped by 42 percent between 2007 and 2012.

In 2012, women of color owned 3.8 million businesses; in 2007, they owned about 2.2 million businesses.

She also says that Millennials and Generation Xers, as a group, may have more appetite for entrepreneurship, and that those two groups are «a large part of the growing demographic for women of color.»

It's not clear why women of color are starting businesses at such stellar rates.

«It's primarily for women of color.

According to Chief Cultivator Devita Davison, at least 74 percent of their members are women and 62 percent are women of color.

She continued that nine percent of Slack's engineers are women of color and the company is «the fastest growing enterprise software start up of all time.»

Now it's unveiling a few firsts aimed directly at channeling more investment capital to women of color and their companies.

On March 13, digitalundivided announced the launch of its BIG Innovation Center, a startup accelerator specifically for women of color.

She put together a report, called Project Diane, to show just how much venture capital goes to women of color, and the results are bleak: Of 10,284 venture deals funded from 2012 to 2014, just 24 were with startups led by black women.

Jennings - O'Bryne is also creating an angelist syndicate, called Harriet Angels, that will invest in women of color.

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

Women who didn't have access to money — many of them women of color — were simply barred from participating.

In 2014, working women earned, on average, 78 percent as much as men, a figure that was much smaller for women of color.

This is true for women of color, on average, and it's also true for women who live in certain U.S. states.

«The satisfaction of doing a great job wasn't enough to overcome the very strong suspicion I had that there was either manager bias, or bias simply because I was a woman of color.

Despite the passage of the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, women still make 79 cents on the dollar on average (or less if you're a woman of color).

A committee for women of color within Time's Up, the organization that played a key role in the #MeToo movement, is calling for a boycott of musician R. Kelly, who has been accused of a range of sexual misconduct.

We demand investigations into R. Kelly's abuse allegations made by women of color + their families for two decades.

We already know that women business owners are driving the growth in small business, and that within that group, it's women of color who are making the most progress.

The Time's Up Women of Color committee, which includes director Ava DuVernay and television mogul Shonda Rhimes, asked on Monday that the music industry cut ties with the hit singer and songwriter while also seeking support for the #MuteRKelly movement that was started in 2017.

In an image we posted this week, we missed the mark in thoughtfully representing women of color and we deeply regret the offense that it has caused.»

It's the first time in U.S. history that Lady Liberty will be portrayed as a woman of color, and she is beautiful.

You said you had an epiphany in interviewing some of these former steel workers — that as a woman of color, you could empathize with middle - aged white men.

And that's when I came up with the idea to start a business that provided women of color with that.»

The company launched in 2014, and was an instant hit with women of color.

Hassan explains her rationale for why popular lingerie and hosiery brands such as Victoria's Secret didn't offer nude products for women of color:

Statistically, the pay gap is even worse for women of color.

At the moment, just two names on the list are women of color: Geisha Williams of PG&E Corporation (pcg) and Indra Nooyi of PepsiCo (pep).

She summarizes her experience at Google like this: «I didn't see a lot of women, especially Asian women, black women or other women of color in the executive ranks.

Black - owned companies aren't the only ones that need to focus their attention on serving women of color.

In May, she joined the board of online survey giant SurveyMonkey, a month later she expanded her portfolio by investing in food startup Daily Harvest, and has spoken out forcefully for equal pay for women of color.

Richelieu Dennis is the founder of Essence Ventures, and also the CEO of Sundial Brands, a leading haircare and skincare company that caters to women of color and was recently acquired by Unilever.

The larger disparity between white men's and women of color's earnings could be attributed to the fact that «women of color suffer both because of their gender and their race,» according to an April 2016 report released by the Senate Joint Economic Committee's Democratic Staff.

There are just two women of color on the list: Geisha Williams, the Latina who runs PG&E and Indra Nooyi, the Indian American (she would be counted in the Asian category on an EEO - 1 Report) CEO at PepsiCo.

In many cases, objectively poorer health outcomes (particularly for women of color and minorities).

This day shines a light on the long - neglected fact that the gender pay gap hits women of color the hardest.

If these decisions are being made by higher - ups who aren't directly responsible for conception and formulation, it means the company needs to be restructured — hire more women of color, at the very least.

Deepening and expanding the original audience for «Lean In,» the book also includes advice geared specifically towards women of color and millennial men.

To recognize that women of color have to work — on average — eight months longer to earn the same as their male counterparts do in one year.

I love her attitude about being a woman of color.

The idea of diversity lands differently for women of color, women who are lesbians, or those from different socioeconomic backgrounds.

An image we recently posted on Facebook missed the mark in representing women of color thoughtfully.

Hair products for women of color.

The numbers of women of color in leadership positions is even lower.

Color Full Lives is back with a focus on helping women of color up their financial IQs and take their lives, careers and relationships to the next level.

Last week, ahead of WWDC, there was a ripple of news when Axios discovered that Bozoma Saint John — one of the more noticeable execs at the company for being a woman of color, who led an Apple Music demo at the previous year's WWDC to some acclaim — was leaving Apple.