Sentences with phrase «number of female role»

There is an increasing number of female role models and mentors who are succeeding at law firms.

If successful, TheBoardlist could create a much larger pool of potential candidates and increase the number of female role models in the tech industry.

If the number of female roles increases at the current rate, it will take 700 years to catch up to males.

Not exact matches

Progress has been slow when it comes to getting more women into executive roles (the number of female board members is climbing but just 13 percent of these female board members are employed as executives).

During the last cycle, she help raise more than $ 1 million for other congressional hopefuls and then touted the role she had played in an «historic election for women» that saw a record number of female candidates running — and winning — seats in Washington.

However, the CBI pointed to increasing numbers of young women rising to senior roles in business with 28 per cent of directors aged 18 - 29 being female.

This is important because the role of a select committee chair is a high profile, influential one; an increase in the number of female chairs has a direct impact on the visibility of women in Parliament, and may encourage more women to play a role in the committee system and politics itself.

The Lib Dem conference in Glasgow today agreed to force senior party figures to undergo the training before they can take up the role, in a bid to increase the number of female candidates for standing for Parliament and local councils.

I can't even begin to count the number of times I've been called «sweetie» and «honey,» or been treated like I'm not in a leadership role (double whammy for being female and looking much younger than I actually am... not complaining about that one!).

Even though the majority of Russian women consider a family life to be the most natural and attractive female role and a status of a married woman with children is still high in the society, a considerable number of the Russian women display the tense feelings, dissatisfaction, deprivation, despair and even fear in the family life and relationship with a husband.

There are complaints every year that while the Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor categories are stacked with talent, the low number of quality female roles that appear in movies makes for frustratingly thin Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress...

For one, a significant number of these films are ensemble pieces that don't have any lead roles, male or female.

The aim is to boost the number of females in engineering roles by celebrating achievements of women in the sector.

Ranstad concluded that more needed to be done to encourage women to ask for pay rises and to apply for more senior roles, if the number of female head teachers is to increase.

Popularized in 1994 with the release of Angelique for the SNES, otome, or «maiden» games insert the player into the role of a female protagonist in story - heavy narratives where the goal is to pursue romances with a number of suitors who are almost always male.

Jansaunoi, whose performance outraged viewers and sparked a dialogue on the role of performance art in Thai culture, was a part - time female go - go dancer, who was paid to go on the famed Thai show in order to increase the number of viewers.

Lubaina Himid played an active role in the Black Arts Movement in the 1980s and 1990s and curated a number of significant exhibitions of black female artists.

Not only would this help to fill the growing skills gap here in the UK, but it would increase the number of strong female role models across the business community.

An unfortunate by - product of an industry with a low number of women is the lack of senior women to act as mentors and role models to female staff.

A number of studies found that both male and female participants who favoured traditional female gender roles had higher fertility desires [24,28,73].

Our new women's initiative involves increasing the number of women in key leadership roles to not only create a more balanced and diverse senior leadership group, but also provide a means to increase our recruitment and retention of strong female contributors.