Sentences with phrase «more than gender»

Many of the classes seemed like nothing more than gender swaps at first, though.
It's often said that females are more independent than males while males like to stay closer to their owners, but some Lab experts say this depends on the dog's genetics more than its gender.
Money, more than gender or even attraction, remains the ultimate aphrodisiac, and if this deeply cynical belief is slightly upended by the film's ending, as in Wilder's The Apartment, the idea is never entirely dispelled by the narrative.
The date will be featured next to your profile which is nothing more than your gender, sexual orientation, age, and location.
The decision to oust honorable, well - trained, and patriotic service members based on nothing more than their gender identity is undiluted discrimination and therefore discrimination and therefore indefensible.
«Based on its implications in my own life, I would argue that the discussion of disadvantage is handicapping women more than the gender gap itself.
It is important that diversity be interpreted as more than gender and Wynne's background may have had a part to play in favoring the Australian model.

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But it shadows much of the response to Wolf's performance so far, suggesting that Americans may be more comfortable with a man attacking other men than a woman criticizing others of her gender.
Overall, though, Millennials of both genders seem to have more in common with one another than they do with older people of their same sex.
That won't surprise anyone who's seen the recent New York City Department of Consumer Affairs report on gender pricing in the city, which found that toys and accessories marketed at girls cost an average of 7 % more than similar products aimed at boys.
«Beginning in the 1980s... study after study started showing that those who were more socially isolated were much more likely to die during a given period than their socially connected neighbors, even after you corrected for age, gender, and lifestyle choices like exercising and eating right.
Companies are becoming increasingly more committed to gender diversity once studies began exposing the uncomfortable truth: «Women remain underrepresented at every level in corporate America, despite earning more college degrees than men for thirty years and counting,» states the report.
Said another, «I feel especially self - conscious and more dysphoric about my gender than usual when I'm at the pool, as swimming attire usually covers less skin.
Even when comparing the sexes with the same job title at the same company and using similar education and experience, the gender pay gap persists across the board: Men earned 2.4 percent more than women on average, down slightly from last year, according to a study by salary - tracking website PayScale.
Companies with women in senior level positions tend to do better than those without any gender diversity, Smith pointed out, citing research by First Round Capital, a major VC firm with more than 300 portfolio companies.
She really didn't think in gendered terms, she says; she was «more concerned about being the daughter of the founder and therefore needing to perform better than others so as not to give the impression of nepotism.»
It's time for any organization with more than a perfunctory interest in gender parity to acknowledge the biases — often unconscious — that might be keeping qualified women from positions that ultimately go to men.
Women's retirement - savings balances generally tend to be lower on average than men's, due to the ongoing gender wage gap and the fact that women are more likely than me to take time off to raise kids or act as caregivers for other friends or relatives.
A company made up of employees from diverse ethnic backgrounds, generations, genders, races and religions (just to name a few) has more creative energy to harness than one with a more homogenized workforce.
Canada's seventh - largest — and largest foreign - owned — bank, with more than $ 90 billion in assets and $ 2 billion in annual revenue, the company under her watch has become an exemplar of gender diversity, with equal numbers of men and women on the board and in senior management.
It's hard to believe that a gender bias still exists in the workplace, more than 50 years after the passage of the Equal Pay Act.
Sterling spent the next year creating the toy, studying gender differences and cognitive development in children, writing a business plan and doing in - home testing with a prototype with more than 100 boys and girls in three schools and more than 40 homes.
Whatever the means, the end goal ought to be equal gender representation in positions of power, and not just for optics: women make more than 80 % of consumer purchases and are responsible for more than 50 % of business procurement decisions.
But are classes like «The Material Culture in the Victorian Novel» or «The Power of Ornament: Roman Imperial Imagery and Its Reception» really more practical than studying gender politics through our cultural reaction to the VMAs?
In a study released in May by the University of Castilla la Mancha, Spain, researchers analyzed the make up and results of more than 4,000 R&D teams around the world and found that gender diverse groups can lead to greater creativity and better decisions.
Another study of more than 4,000 companies showed that those with a greater degree of gender diversity were more likely to introduce more radical innovations.
While women typically face gender - discrimination or bias in traditional sources of funding like venture capital or banking, crowdfunding «enables and empowers far more female decision - makers — as project backers and «micro-VCs» — than within traditional finance,» the report argues.
Gender equality in the workplace is especially topical topic right now after more than two dozen women recently spoke with the New York Times about sexual harrassment in Silicon Valley.
According to the National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs, 23 transgender or gender - fluid people have been homicide victims in the U.S. so far this year, one more than the coalition tallied in all of 2015.
Even if only 16 Fortune 500 companies share detailed demographic information about their employees, it's important to point out that the data that is available represents the race, gender and job category of more than 800,000 people — everyone from the CEO through service staff.
More than 100 biopharma execs urge more gender diversity in the life scienMore than 100 biopharma execs urge more gender diversity in the life scienmore gender diversity in the life sciences.
Speaking of the conference — more than 100 biopharma executives signed a fascinating open letter released Wednesday imploring the industry to get its act together when it comes to gender diversity.
More men answered the question correctly than women (64 percent vs. 56 percent); however, both genders had sizable portions tripped up by the answer «Income after taxes» (15 percent male vs. 17 percent female).
Still, women are more likely than men to say that deviating from traditional gender norms is a good approach to take in raising both girls and boys.
«I know that it's not enough just to say it, but there's a very strong, deep respect for all genders and races at Asana that in some ways is more subtle than any one particular process.»
The government - backed report from Lord Mervyn Davies, who has been championing gender equality in the boardroom, shows that FTSE 100 companies have exceeded the target of having 25 % women on their boards — more than doubling the number in 2011 when the target was set.
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.
Uber says the gender data has about 99 percent participation while the race / ethnicity data represents more than 75 percent of the company.
You know her age, gender and what she does for a living, but not much more than that.
Beginning in the 1980s, Schwartz says, study after study started showing that those who were more socially isolated were much more likely to die during a given period than their socially connected neighbors, even after you corrected for age, gender, and lifestyle choices like exercising and eating right.
Political Empowerment has the widest gender gap with only Iceland having closed more than 70 % of the gap.
In Morgan Stanley's view, there is no single motivation to pursuing Investing with Impact and gender diversity based investing, and certainly more than one approach to implementing.
Our team used a methodology known as multi-level regression and poststratification to crunch responses from more than 44,000 registered voters with state - level demographics such as gender, income, and education level.
Study highlights Millennials are having a harder time achieving financial independence than previous generations, are more willing to job hop; Report also finds gender wage gap is shrinking
While the big - picture finding that more than four in five small businesses are planning growth in 2017 is encouraging, the numbers are little less rosy when we look at them by gender.
Looking at the individual pillars of the Index, the report finds that in 2017 that 27 countries have now closed the gender gap in Educational Attainment; three more countries than last year.
«Whereas 80 % of beer companies» consumers are male, cider is gender - neutral, opening up a market in which beer players have struggled,» a 2011 Nomura Equity Research report explained — while also pointing out that a typical case of cider ($ 35) costs more than craft beer ($ 33) or imported beer ($ 29).
It explicitly recognizes that government needs to «stop and ask for directions» from civil society and academics, many of whom have been thinking about and analysing budgets with a gender and intersectional lens for more than 20 years.
This was supported by findings in the Equality and Human Rights Commission report in 2008 which said that at the current rate of change, it would take more than 70 years to achieve a gender balance in the boardrooms in the UK's largest 100 companies.
But Gouw and Fonstad view diversity more broadly than gender or ethnicity to include different skill sets such as investing, operating, marketing, technology and product development.
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