Sentences with phrase «n't about being a woman»

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Anyone who's read or heard anything about diversity in tech is familiar with the pipeline problem: the fact that women and under - represented minorities don't pursue STEM degrees at the same rate as men.

When a woman talks about her big job at Hypermegaglobalcorp, it's too often met with a stare that says, «Oh, so that's why the homework isn't getting done, and your kids look like rug rats.»

If a young woman entrepreneur hasn't found a market for her product outside of her sorority sisters, Whitehead says, it's crucial to be able to tell her that without worrying about hurting her feelings.

That idea paves the way for women not to worry as much about what would happen if they needed to take on multiple caregiver roles and / or be financially independent.

More than 60 percent of the 320 women business owners surveyed by Forbes Insight and KeyBank's Key4Woman said that they don't track social media to find out what they're customers are saying about them.

«When I was interviewing couples for my book The Daddy Shift, I found the happiest ones were those who weren't hung up on ideas about what a man should do and what a woman should do.

I had an investor say, «I think you're amazing, but I have to pick one or two board seats a year and where I feel really passionate about the business, and I don't think I can be passionate about women's dresses and retail.»»

The company insisted it had not changed the specifications for the clothing, but is warning of a shortage of the extraordinarily popular clothing items, which make up about 17 per cent of all women's pants and crop pants in its stores.

«I would have been long divorced if I'd been married,» she told the Loose Women panelists about her decision not to marry.

Code for America co-founder Catherine Bracy fired off a series of tweets saying Silicon Valley should disown Thiel, urging men and women of all races not accept jobs at Facebook until he's off the board, and saying anyone who defends him is sending a powerful message about their values.

But she's keen to emphasize that innovation is about more than just technology, citing the example of a local female entrepreneur in the construction industry who couldn't find workboots for women and started a company to manufacture them.

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Ritter said she didn't specifically think about the number of women on set, because she was already used to it.

And it's so much safer to target the woman, even if the moderator doesn't consciously think about it that way.

• Speaking of Time's Up... Attorney Tina Tchen, who Bloomberg describes as «arguably the most well - connected person working in women's rights today, thanks to her six years as an assistant to President Barack Obama and as first lady Michelle Obama's chief of staff,» talks about why it was so important that Time's Up include a legal defense fund: «The fastest way to make sure that someone isn't getting bullied by a lawyer for someone rich and powerful is to make sure that person has a lawyer, too.»

According to not - for - profit Catalyst, about 20 percent of board seats at S&P 500 companies are held by women.

Dagne Dover is the women's handbag company we can't stop talking about — they just get work bags, weekend bags, and backpacks so right.

The Oscars may have been dominated by messages about women, but the actors weren't the only ones being celebrated.

From the stories of these women, it's clear that, really, we're not talking about unconscious bias or even innocent misunderstandings.

Lola is certainly not the only company with that focus, but the importance of vetting — and providing transparency about — materials takes on a new significance when you consider that these are items that are regularly used inside of women's bodies.

And I think a lot of women have been misled about the amount of pain they are expected to endure during their period, which is why some women don't think to seek treatment for endometriosis.»

If you're a set of guys looking to start a company, think about women you could team up with — they will see things differently and solve problems you didn't even realize you had.

And let's not even talk about smaller smartwatches for women — those might be years away.

Nope, it's not easy to extend your empathy to that woman two desks over who's complaining to you about the same pointless thing for the sixth time this week.

And then she lost to THAT guy — of all people — who is not qualified, who said such disgusting things about women, who clearly disrespects women.

«This is a risky drug about which women and their doctors don't get enough information,» said Cindy Pearson, who heads the National Women's Health Network, which released the report women and their doctors don't get enough information,» said Cindy Pearson, who heads the National Women's Health Network, which released the report Women's Health Network, which released the report card.

Since Estonian women were not about to have 10 babies each, the alternative was to figure out what kind of product the country could offer to the rest of the world.

Shouldn't it be about two strong black women, they asked?

At a symposium, held at the U.S. Treasury in 2010 about women in finance, Elizabeth Warren, not yet a U.S. Senator, said about the fact that there aren't enough women on Wall Street, «Sometimes you have to lean back and sock someone in the mouth.»

Despite the fact that he's milked #BloggerGate for all its worth, Dublin hotel and café owner Paul Stenson doesn't want the argument he's making about the entitled behavior of influencers to come at the expense of the woman who prompted it.

If Trump stands by what he said about women as «locker room talk,» he's clearly not sorry.

Even at New York's 14 percent figure, we're still not talking about a lot of women.

It means that when we discuss policies to increase the number of women on boards, we're not arguing about where we're going — we're just arguing about how to get there.

In fact, not only is it possible, it's more common than you think — last year, a study found that women tend to lose interest in sex about a year into a relationship.

I once saw (but frustratingly can't currently locate) a great headline on an article responding to the question of why women are less aggressive about negotiating compensation than men.

I've culled the studies that are neither useful nor funny - like the one that confirms women pretend to be happy about gifts they don't like while men don't, causing fights - to offer you a quick guide to the science of the season:

It's «equal pay day,» and that means it's the annual day we ladies all joke about how we can't wait for year 2059 — the year pay is actually expected to be roughly equal for women and men.

Karolyi says that a medal - contending Olympic team isn't just about five women.

I would say right now there is certainly a group of women that cares deeply about it, but I wouldn't say it's necessarily representative of the general population.»

At Refinery29 — which describes itself as «a modern woman's destination for how to live a stylish, well - rounded life» — the goal is not just about putting out the highest volume, but also finding the right channels and mechanisms for distributing its message.

But over the years, employers have reached differing conclusions about how the Act's language should be interpreted — specifically the line that says employers must treat pregnant women the same as «other persons not so affected [by pregnancy] but similar in their ability or inability to work.»

And there's nothing like some success to build on your confidence, to be able to ignore people who may suggest that because you're a woman you somehow don't know what you're talking about.

«We wondered if women may think about things that men don't... You want to be an amazing employee.

About two years ago, the attorney at law firm Cooley took over as chair of the Partnership Nominating Committee, and the numbers weren't inspiring when it came to women's progress.

But while people may have a right to express their beliefs in public, that does not mean companies can not take action when women are subjected to comments that perpetuate negative stereotypes about them based on their gender.

That the bragging happened a decade ago doesn't change the reality that a man who might be president sees half the country's population not just as objects for his own aesthetic gratification — we knew that thanks to the beauty pageants and the string of model wives — but objects for his physical gratification as well, regardless of how the women in question feel about it.

Agrawal: We're very worried about the state of our country and our rights as women and our reproductive rights, and in order to not move backwards, we are playing our part to make sure that our voices are heard.

As a marketer, I can't really do anything with a data point about the percentage of business travelers who are women — at least not anything that will differentiate from all of the rest of my competitors.

They hope to be able to amass enough data about women's menstrual cycles, sexual behavior, mood, and diet that they can help any woman know exactly when to conceive, warn her about early problems like potential endometriosis, and over time, promote better health care for women in general by collecting large amounts of information that hasn't been collected before.

I was homeschooled, I went to college when I was 16, as a woman I'm really interested in the subjects I talk about, which are video games and things that aren't «traditionally» female.