Sentences with phrase «number of women directors»

However, this year we had a number of women directors produce high - profile, critical darlings — and still no nominations.

«For the first few years, (Dr. Lauzen) was really looking at Hollywood and giving the statistics about the numbers of women directors and Hollywood,» she says.

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Harford is a prominent diversity champion, both in the financial services sector and the wider business community, and served as the co-head of Citi Women and on the board of directors of The Forte Foundation, a U.S. nonprofit organization dedicated to increasing the number of women leaders in busiWomen and on the board of directors of The Forte Foundation, a U.S. nonprofit organization dedicated to increasing the number of women leaders in busiwomen leaders in business.

A recent study of the top 250 grossing films found that women comprised roughly 6 percent of the directors; the number of female minority filmmakers can barely be measured.

«Women are founding companies at a very significant pace today, but they're still relatively smaller numbers focusing on high growth venture - backable businesses,» says Cindy Padnos, managing director of Illuminate Ventures.

The number of FTSE 100 women executive directors almost doubled from 2011 - 15 but was still fewer than one in 10.

«Greater participation of women in boardrooms is necessary and the way to do this is to increase the number of senior female executives from which board members can be drawn,» said Carrie Hartnell, associate director of Intellect's Women in IT Fwomen in boardrooms is necessary and the way to do this is to increase the number of senior female executives from which board members can be drawn,» said Carrie Hartnell, associate director of Intellect's Women in IT FWomen in IT Forum.

As an organization committed to gender balance on our own board of directors, we find the equal number of qualified men and women appointed to the cabinet to be both appropriate and prudent.

After a series of difficult relationships with women (including four divorces), a number of children and a range of careers — from being a radio station program director to a newspaper reporter to owning his own public relations and marketing firm — Walsch became sick, jobless and homeless.

Ms Loane's appointment takes the number of women on the 14 - person FSC board to four, including Pauline Blight - Johnston, group executive insurance and superannuation for AMP Financial Services, Annabel Spring, group executive wealth management for the Commonwealth Bank, and Maria Wilton, managing director of Franklin Templeton Investments Australia.

Susan Anderson, CBI's director of human resources policy, said: «Women are still under - represented in senior positions and more progress must be made, but it is encouraging that an increasing number of women are becoming directors, particularly from the younger age groups.&rWomen are still under - represented in senior positions and more progress must be made, but it is encouraging that an increasing number of women are becoming directors, particularly from the younger age groups.&rwomen are becoming directors, particularly from the younger age groups.»

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.

«The law was passed because lead can cause serious health problems, especially for young children and pregnant women, and testing at a select number of schools last year uncovered potential problems,» said Christine Schuyler, director of health and human services for Chautauqua County.

It is certainly not an all male - club as the help - line in the daytime is run by a couple of dedicated women and the charity has a number of female directors including a Conservative councillor (Cllr Roz Willis — North Somerset).

In terms of representation of women in the state legislature, New York stands at number 20 nationwide, says Dina Refki, director of the Center for Women in Government and Civil Society at the University at Alwomen in the state legislature, New York stands at number 20 nationwide, says Dina Refki, director of the Center for Women in Government and Civil Society at the University at AlWomen in Government and Civil Society at the University at Albany.

Among other items, the resolution created a Director role to be dedicated to this effort, and the party committed itself to doubling the number of Democratic women in local elected and appointed office in Santa Clara County by the year 2020, the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution: Women's Right to women in local elected and appointed office in Santa Clara County by the year 2020, the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution: Women's Right to Women's Right to Vote.

THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Santa Clara County Democratic Party Central Committee is committed to doubling the number of Democratic women in local elected and appointed office in Santa Clara County by the year 2020, the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, through the creation of a Director position on the Executive Board dedicated to working with clubs, Directors and any other interested parties to implement this commitment and to be appointed by the Party Chair, and that this appointment will be made in collaboration with DAWN; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the new Director will also report quarterly on the current status of women both in Santa Clara County public jurisdictions and within the Santa Clara County Democratic Party and lead the compilation and publication of an annual report of the current number and percentage of women in elected office in Santa Clara County and post the report on the Party website and in an electronic communication to all members; and that the new Director will lead this effort by recruiting, training and supporting democratic women seeking public leadership positions in collaboration with the Director of Endorsements and Candidate Recruitment, the Director of Issues, the Director of Political Engagement and DAWN as well as any other interested Party Directors and clubs.

«Given the substantial reduction in maternal mortality and the increase in the number of older women over the last 10 years, health systems in low - and middle - income countries must adjust accordingly, otherwise this trend will continue to increase,» said Dr John Beard, director of the World Health Organization's (WHO) Department of Ageing and Life Course and one of the authors of the study.

Ami Radunskaya — a professor of mathematics at Pomona College, president - elect of the Association for Women in Mathematics, and director of the national Enhancing Diversity in Graduate Education (EDGE) Program — was chosen as the winner of the 2016 AAAS Mentor Award for launching «dramatic education and research changes leading to an increase in the number of female doctorates in the field of mathematics.»

The university's board of directors, called overseers, last spring urged Harvard President Neil Rudenstine in a confidential report to take specific steps as quickly as possible to increase the number of women faculty in all departments.

«The DASH Diet can lower the top number — systolic pressure — anywhere from 8 to 14 points,» says cardiologist Nieca Goldberg, MD, medical director of the Women's Heart Program at NYU Langone Medical Center in New York City.

During an interview with the Sydney Morning Herald, the Australian actor made a pledge to work with a female director every 18 months in a bid to help increase the number of women working in the film industry.

In 2017, the HFPA had a chance to nominate a number of great directors, including Bigelow (Detroit), Dee Rees (Mudbound), Patty Jenkins (Wonder Woman) and, arguably the biggest snub of all, Greta Gerwig, who saw her Lady Bird screenplay and film get nominated... but not her work directing it.

At this year's Locarno Festival, (recently renewed) artistic director Carlos Chatrian similarly declared that he foresaw increasing numbers of women filmmakers in the competitions of major festivals and that he was especially proud to tout, in Locarno's main competition section (with 17 world premieres), eight women directors.1 And Locarno's outcome, amid an impressively deep competition pool, was unexpectedly different: although I, Daniel Blake did win the audience award of the Festival's mainstream Piazza Grande section, a female writer / director, Ralitza Petrova, took the festival's top prize for her brooding and bleak Bulgarian film Godless.

After all the talk of 2009 being «the year of the woman,» owing much to the number of female directors who found themselves in the mix (and -LSB-...]

Lebanese writer - director Nadine Labaki keeps the details general in her sharp black musical comedy about women trying to keep the peace in an isolated village populated by equal numbers of Muslims and Christians.

«On these steps today stand 82 women representing the number of female directors who have climbed these stairs since the first edition of the Cannes Film Festival in 1946.»

So, it's not surprising that an impressive number of powerful women were also honored for their work both on the small screen, with Big Little Lies and The Handmaid's Tale, and on the big screen, with first - time writer - director Greta Gerwig winning Best Motion Picture, Comedy for her directorial debut, Lady Bird, along with leading lady, Saoirse Ronan winning Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture, Comedy.

In addition to AAFCA dubbing 2017 the «Year of the Woman in Cinema» — for women helming a number of critically and commercially successful pictures — this year, he says, also saw the largest output of film content by African American directors in history.

I definitely have colleagues who are women who are directors of programming or executive directors, but I bet are percentages aren't that much better than the number of women filmmakers getting into film festivals.

I am not going to say that every film written or directed by a woman is automatically good — far from it, just as with male directors, there's a number of them that are pure crap and almost unbearable to sit through (I am quite sad to say that three out of four «worst films» of the year that you will find below were directed by women).

Ah, the critic who cried woman... Anytime there's discourse about female directors in film, there's the frustratingly inevitable bombardment of outcry about the gross discrepancy between the number of male - directed films and those of their female counterparts.

After all the talk of 2009 being «the year of the woman,» owing much to the number of female directors who found themselves in the mix (and inevitably leading to Kathryn Bigelow's history - making moment at the Kodak), I'm sensing an even better argument for 2010 as a singular season for the fairer sex.

Only three thesps (all women) have been Oscar - nominated for their work in a Leigh film — a number far smaller than it should be — and all of them, oddly enough, were tapped for their first collaboration with the director.

2017 brought a number of great films from female directors, and three of them persisted in the cultural conversation as having awards - season potential: Patty Jenkins for Wonder Woman, Dee Rees for Mudbound, and Greta Gerwig for Lady Bird.

Despite an increasing number of women directing films in the industry today, Greta Gerwig is the only woman to have been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director since Kathryn Bigelow's win in 2010.

While an exact number could not be unveiled, Variety reports that sources say Jenkins» «Wonder Woman 2» payday is in the $ 8 million range to write, direct and produce the follow - up, making her the highest paid female director of all time.

Bassett said her children, son Slater and daughter Bronwyn, visited the movie's set as well, where they saw a version of Black Panther's women warriors in the form of writer - director Ryan Coogler's crew, which had an unusual number of women in key roles.

2014 was a banner year, with great films in an enormous range of genres: blockbusters and indies, horror and SciFi, dramas and comedies, as well as films from first time filmmakers, a lot of great stuff from women directors, and an unusually high number of excellent films with one - word titles.

British director Kim Longinotto has made her name with a number of intensely powerful, quietly observed films often focusing on the plight of women, like «Divorce Iranian Style» or «Rough Aunties,» but «Dreamcatcher» might be one of her most moving pictures yet.

She was director of women's studies at a Midwestern college for a number of years.

Reddy also identified that the game industry actually included a number of women who ran studios and had high levels of influence, but that the lack of female creative directors was a shame.

Curators and directors are part of the mix, of whom women make a significant number: Sheikha Hoor Al - Quasimi (41), an artist running the Sharjah Art Foundation and biennale, in the United Arab Emirates and — just setting out — Maria Balshaw, (16) heading the Tate galleries.

For The Record Los Angeles Times Sunday June 11, 2006 Home Edition Main News Part A Page 2 National Desk 1 inches; 40 words Type of Material: Correction Nat Sutton: An article in today's Calendar about the growing number of women serving as museum directors says Nat Sutton is a managing partner of Korn / Ferry International, an executive search firm.

It began with a simple discussion between NMWA Director Susan Fisher Sterling, Washington Post Arts Reporter Katherine Boyle, and me about the increasing number of women in leadership roles within Washington, D.C. cultural organizations.

Three factors have nudged population projections upward over the past decade, Hania Zlotnik, the director of the population division, said in an interview: lengthening lifespans; the success of HIV / AIDS treatment and prevention efforts, particularly in Africa; and «a slower than expected decline in fertility» (meaning the number of children a woman bears).

Under the draft CBCA regulations, public corporations that are governed by the CBCA would be required to disclose the number and percentage of women, visible minorities, aboriginal people and people with disabilities on their boards of directors and within senior management; whether the issuer has adopted a written policy in respect of diversity relating to the enumerated categories on the board of directors; the extent to which diversity relating to the enumerated categories is taken into account when nominating directors and appointing executive officers; and whether targets have been adopted for women, visible minorities, aboriginal people and people with disabilities on the board and in executive officer positions.

Securities regulators in Manitoba, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Northwest Territories, Nova Scotia, Nunavut, Ontario, Quebec, and Saskatchewan did adopt the rules requiring companies to disclose, on an annual basis, information on policies relating to the identification and nomination of women directors, targets for women on boards and in executive officer positions as well as the number and percentage of women on the issuer's board of directors and in executive officer positions.

Deloitte increased the number of women partners, principals and directors from 97 in 1993 to 617 in 2003; it has had the highest percentage of women in these positions of the Big Four consulting firms every year since 1997, and was the first to have a woman board chair.