Sentences with phrase «more of its women partners»

Every firm genuinely committed to advancing women into leadership will want to have one or more of its women partners participate.

Not exact matches

Well, I'd love to see a heck of a lot more women in partner roles.

A panel of three entrepreneurs discussed the relationship between purpose and profitability in greater depth: Pocket Sun, who, as founding partner of female - focused VC firm SoGal Ventures, has a purpose of «building an empire for millennial women to invest in startups»; Eileen Gittins, a serial entrepreneur who founded book self - publishing firm Blurb and now runs Bossygrl, a mobile app meant to introduce Gen Z girls to entrepreneurship by helping them launch micro-businesses; and Cathie Reid, co-founder and current digital advisor to Icon Group, an Australian cancer - care company with annual revenue of more than $ 1.5 billion.

Broadly, there tend to be more men in high - paying fields like technology, and more women in lower - paid ones such as education, creating much of the imbalance, said management consultant Steve Tobak, managing partner for Invisor Consulting in California.

Investing in women is smart business, says Kathryn Swintek, general partner and member of the Investment Committee of Golden Seeds Fund 2, part of New York - based angel network Golden Seeds, which comprises more than 275 investors, 80 percent of whom are women.

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.

Examine the reasons why so few women choose to enter or stay in venture capital roles and call on the venture capital industry to do more to recruit and promote women investors to partner level roles in order to increase the number of women investment professionals

A potentially more rapid path for women to become partners is the growth of female - founded venture firms.

While she and her female partners were fund - raising in March, one investor told them that they should marry for money, that he liked it when women fought back because he would always win, and that they needed more attractive photos of themselves in their presentation.

Of course limited partners can also empower women in leadership roles and now, more than ever before, there is ample opportunity to back firms that feature gender diversity.

This commitment to action, lead by WEConnect International and Vital Voices, brings together a variety of partners to integrate more women - owned businesses into corporate supply chains.

They initially targeted urban millennial women, but the audience has grown to include a broader demographic (20 percent of Skimm readers are male), no doubt a reason why, when they closed their Series A funding at the end of last year, they raised more than $ 6.25 million from investors like RRE, Greycroft Partners, and Homebrew, as well as big names like Irving Azoff, the former chief executive of Ticketmaster, and even Chelsea Handler.

And more broadly, it claims that there was a pattern of sexual harassment at the firm, saying that at least one other investment partner and three administrative assistants, all women, complained about Mr. Nazre's behavior.

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«We need to get more women starting funds and investing,» said Brand, founding general partner of True Wealth Ventures, an Austin venture capital firm that focuses on investing in early - stage, women - led startups in the consumer health and sustainable products sectors.

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.

Female Funders is partnered with the National Angel Capital Organization (NACO) to increase the ratio of women angel investors globally, by creating more accessible tools and resources for aspiring and experienced angel investors.

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We now have examples from seven or eight African countries where the proportion of men and women reporting more than one sexual partner in the past year has declined significantly, and this is followed by a general decline in HIV prevalence at the national level.

Oddly enough, the rate of women reporting more than 100 partners declines from 4 percent among the high school graduates to one percent among college graduates but increases to 8 percent among postgraduate women.

Building on the Catholic emphasis on the importance of free marital consent, Luther and Calvin developed further the covenantal understanding of marital commitment, elevated the status of women, emphasized the freedom of young adults to choose their partners, helped make marriage more compassionate and established marriage as a civic institution regulated by secular law yet also blessed and given meaning by the church.

marriage of which they are a part, also releases women to be both more satisfied and more satisfying to their sex partners.

She refers to the man in his 40s who divorces his wife because her commitment to church and to gardening and her dislike of tennis make him doubt that she will be a sufficiently amusing partner to cheer his retirement years; a young mother who admits that her husband is her best friend, but who divorces him because she no longer feels very romantic toward him; a woman who marries someone she doesn't especially like because she fears she may never find anyone better and then, after having several children, does find someone more to her liking.

Interestingly, in the UK, you'll see a marked fall in victims of both sexes since the 1970s, but more so for male victims: I've seen this attributed to the growth of women's refuges, meaning that fewer women are killing abusive partners in desperation.

We are hearing more voices of women who regard men and women as partners rather than antagonists in the eternal quest for better ways to love and work.

This community is also a safe setting for meeting potential partners in «love marriages» (in contrast to arranged marriages)- a pattern that both gives greater freedom of choice to women and forces men to act in ways that commend them to more independent women.

As someone who believes in God whole heartedly and feels he is the way through alot of the darkness on this earth but also the way to celebrate our greatest joys.I am happy she has found the love of God.But I to find the choice of religion somewhat suspiscious.As others have pointed out the dicotomy makes one wonder if the fact that her boyfriend is a Catholic has alot to do with her choice.Alot of women and men for that matter find conform to what their partners religion is because it is just easier and more comfortable at home for them.Now I am not saying this is what happened in this case.but it is somehting ti ponder.For me loving God and your neighbor as much as yourself are the most important part of believeing in a Supreme Being and all the rest of the Dogma just gets in the way and even is the cause of alot of the strife and wars in this world.So I hope she is happy but UP God for me... but no thatnks on the religion!!

Because of that week, not only was my own life changed profoundly through friendships and awakenings, but I'm proud to say that we — and I mean all of us because you have all walked this road with our family — we have partnered with incredible leaders to build a school for kids in earthquake ground zero Port - au - Prince (staffed and run by Haitians), supported a home - based village for trafficked children near the border, built a preschool for early support for these children, supported schooling and food programs in neglected villages decimated by the cholera outbreak, supported pregnant and nursing women with a fantastic maternity centre, and so much more.

But doing right by women (and all sexual partners) requires more than simply reversing the logic of abusers.

When adjusted for different proportions of persons in each of these categories, the following profile of the CBN partners who have called a CBN counseling center emerges: 80 per cent are women; 91 percent are «700 Club» members; 94 percent have been a «700 Club» member for one year or more; 70 percent are over the age of 35; 84 percent have no college education; and 90 per cent are affiliated with a church.

Bonomi's second study shows that women who have read Fifty Shades are more likely to have an abusive partner and unhealthy eating habits, and regardless of causation, the correlation is troubling.

• Women who enjoy the full support of their partners are more closely bonded to their children, and more responsive and sensitive to their needs (Feiring, 1976).

What if men in general earned less than women, cheated more, and more than half of them divorced their partners because they cheated, and benefited financially?

44 % of women now earn as much, or more than, their partners — a percentage that is climbing sharply (National Equality Panel, 2010) and is likely to continue to increase because...

And while many worried about how the legalization of marriage for same - sex couples would be a «slippery slope» to marriage among more than two partners, my question is — why is that a bad thing if it's among consenting adults, especially if it would benefit women?

As a male of the age demographic in question (not that I am dating or trying to date), I hear more from women that they have no use for a man in their lives than I do one seeking a partner.

Many of us see men as being more likely than women to prefer recreational sex, to value sex over relationships, to be «players» wanting no - strings sex and to seek multiple partners — and to a certain extent and in some instances, that may be true.

As with Josh and Mia, Finnish men are now more likely than Finnish women to select partners based on their high level of education.

In more gender - unequal nations, such as Turkey, women rate the earning potential of partners as twice as important compared with women in the most gender - equal nations, such as Finland.

Currently, the desire for a young, attractive partner of the opposite sex tends to be more prevalent in men than in women.

And, when she divorced in 2016 it was clear that her reinvention of herself — to partner with her best friend, a woman — may have been something more.

I have begun reading sociologist Eva Illouz's 2012 book Why Love Hurts and while I haven't gotten too far into it, and thus will likely have a lot more to say about, Illouz says the modern world, with its deregulated of marriage markets and freedom to choose one's own partner has, made the search for love an «agonizingly difficult experience» that leads to collective misery and disappointment, which is then internalized by people — especially women — as a personal failing.

And while many do propose, there aren't a lot of compelling reasons if they're already cohabiting; since cohabitation is typically more gender egalitarian than marriage, men don't have to be the breadwinner — more cohabiting women have jobs than their partners — and he still has someone to clean the house and his clothes (yes, cohabiting women tend to do more of that than the guys).

While it's true that more men than women aged 30 to 50 say they're not interested in tying the knot — 27 percent versus 8 percent of women, according to a recent Pew survey — many women seem to be interested in creating a meaningful and productive life whether they have a partner or not.

I earn more than my previous partners and If I am the main provider financially then It would be nice if the man balances it out by being romantic and attentive in the relationship, then income is not so much of an issue.If the man refuses to work or only works part time then the woman may feel like she puts in more effort.

Further survey results: • 78 % of women think that being able to cook makes a man more attractive • Welsh dads seem to be doing best, where 51 % of mums said their partners get into the kitchen and cook with their kids • The North East is the region where Mums are most attracted by involved dads (98 %) • 70 % of women would prefer a meal cooked by their partner and kids to any other traditional treat.

• 8 out of 10 people (80 %) think fathers should feel as able as mothers to ask for flexible working • 8 out of 10 women (80 %) and more than 6 out of 10 men (62 %) agree that fathers are as good as mothers at caring for children • 7 out of 10 (70 %) agree, 42 % strongly, that society values a child's relationship with its mother more than it values a child's relationship with its father • Almost 6 out of 10 (59 %) agree with the statement that society assumes mothers are good for children, fathers have to prove it • 7 out of 10 (70 %) agree, 50 % strongly, that there should be a zero tolerance approach if fathers do not take on their parenting responsibilities • Almost 7 out of 10 (67 %) agree that dads should be encouraged to spend time in school reading with their child • 7 out of 10 (70 %) agree, 50 % strongly, that dads should be able to stay overnight with their partner in hospital when their baby is born.

Society isn't happy with single moms; according to a 2011 Pew Research Center study, nearly seven out of 10 said the trend toward single mothers was bad for society (although writer Tracy Mayor in Brain, Child magazine calls out the actual question asked by Pew researchers — how people felt about «more single women deciding to have children without a male partner to help raise them,» not whether they think single mothers per se are bad for society.

If women were more fully in charge of how their relationships transpired, we'd be seeing, on average, more impressive wooing efforts, longer relationships, fewer premarital sexual partners, shorter cohabitations, and more marrying going on.

The survey lists seven trends, including «more unmarried couples raising children,» «more mothers of young children working outside the home,» and «more single women having children without a male partner to help raise them.»