Sentences with phrase «of women group»

«30 percent of the schools in the district should be reserved for protocol from the Minister of Gender, Children and Social Protection... The Final selection form the district which excludes the 30 % protocol should include strong women activists, female opinion leaders, other women executives, queen - mothers and members of women groups,» the statement added.

A coalition of women groups under the aegis of Nigerian Feminist Forum, NFF, yesterday stated that the comment made by President Muhammadu Buhari on his wife,...

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Developed over the past decade, the system is implemented by a group of analysts whom employees refer to as the «smart guys» (though many are women).

«In the financial industry, there's been a lot of debate, post — financial crisis, around different approaches to risk and gender difference,» says Brenda Trenowden, global head of funds at ANZ Banking Group in London and a member of the steering committee of the 30 % Club, which works to get more women on corporate boards.

Since women make up just 15.9 % of the board seats of Canada's 500 largest companies by revenue according to advocacy group Catalyst, investors looking to apply a gender - lens strategy may find better pickings south of the border.

Tech companies, in recent years, have been under fire for the underrepresentation of women and certain minority groups in their workforces.

Golden Seeds, a group of mostly ex-Wall Street women, has been providing early funding to female - run companies since 2005; Cindy Padnos's Illuminate Ventures was formed in 2009.

She also says that Millennials and Generation Xers, as a group, may have more appetite for entrepreneurship, and that those two groups are «a large part of the growing demographic for women of color.»

In 2010, venture capitalists Sonja Hoel Perkins and Jennifer Fonstad corralled a group of Silicon Valley's most powerful women to form Broadway Angels; so far, 48 percent of its entrepreneurs are women.

The «pipeline problem» is the theory there simply aren't enough properly skilled members of underrepresented groups for hire — including women, people of color, veterans and members of the LGBTQ community.

Two founders of Facebook's most popular groups for women entrepreneurs provide marketing tips on the use of social media.

With the appointment of Georgiadis, Mattel will add another woman to the small group of 27 female executives that steer Fortune 500 companies.

Morneau's group of extraordinary men (six) and women (six), led by Dominic Barton, the head of global consultancy McKinsey & Co., appears destined to receive a certain amount of criticism.

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.

If this surprises you, talk to any group of women of child - bearing age.

Entrepreneur Cathie Reid, co-founder and current digital advisor of Icon Group, an Australian cancer - care company, talks to delegates at the Dell Women's Entrepreneur Network conference in San Francisco in July 2017.

Indians have done amazingly well as entrepreneurs in the Valley, but other groups — African Americans and women, to name two — remain largely out of sight.

Necole Parker (woman in the front row, on the left, in a suit), the founder of The ELOCEN Group, with her team.

• BCBG Max Azria Group, a Vernon, Calif. - based designer of women's clothing and accessories, is preparing to file for bankruptcy, according to Reuters.

For example, Google announced that it will hold its own Women's Demo Day, which will feature women - led startups from around the country pitching to a group of judges at the Googleplex, with the goal of driving investment and providing Google mentorship and introductions to each entrepreWomen's Demo Day, which will feature women - led startups from around the country pitching to a group of judges at the Googleplex, with the goal of driving investment and providing Google mentorship and introductions to each entreprewomen - led startups from around the country pitching to a group of judges at the Googleplex, with the goal of driving investment and providing Google mentorship and introductions to each entrepreneur.

She rose from immigrant roots up the industry ladder to become creative lead of her own multimillion - dollar women's wear fashion brand, and then endured a series of nasty breakups — first with her ex-husband and then with Jones Apparel Group, the fashion behemoth that licensed and marketed her creations.

Earlier this month, Dell announced that in June they'll bring a group of 150 women from 11 countries, including the U.S., to Istanbul.

said members of the Democratic Women's Working Group were encouraging lawmakers of all parties and genders to participate, but the protest is likely to be seen as a direct critique of President Trump, who has been accused of sexual misconduct.

Not only have sales been meager, but the pill and its manufacturer — Valeant Pharmaceuticals (vrx)-- rate poorly on several measures that should be of concern to women and doctors, according to an advocacy group that on Thursday released a report card for the drug's one - year anniversary.

It refers to negative comments Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has made about various groups of people, including Mexicans, Muslims, and women, asking that people support the petition to encourage Starbucks to cut ties with the businessman.

The group included players from all walks of basketball — role players, veterans, players with short - lived careers, star college players, successful women players — who had traveled from around the country, through a snowy New York, for the meeting.

«It was a very diverse group of women, which was really nice,» Graham said.

Less heralded by history was a group of six women who worked in wartime secrecy at the University of Pennsylvania, where John Mauchly and Presper Eckert led a team that was building ENIAC, the world's first programmable, all - electronic, general - purpose computer.

A recent survey by theBoardlist, a group that seeks out women qualified for board seats and helps connect them to search committees, asked why the representation of women on boards was so low.

The majority of Canadians fall into at least one of the groups with slow employment growth (women, people under age 55, those living outside of Alberta and Saskatchewan, etc.), so it has been a rough 12 months for most of us.

In a survey conducted by the U.S. Women's Chamber of Commerce in the first half of fiscal 2012, which began October 1, 2011, 71 contracts worth $ 3 million were awarded to women - owned firms, says Margot Dorfman, the group's chief execuWomen's Chamber of Commerce in the first half of fiscal 2012, which began October 1, 2011, 71 contracts worth $ 3 million were awarded to women - owned firms, says Margot Dorfman, the group's chief execuwomen - owned firms, says Margot Dorfman, the group's chief executive.

A group of women explain to CNBC how they're addressing the lack of female representation on Wall Street — by making a movie about it.

«PSA Group won't convey a degrading image of anyone, neither of women or men.»

Hundreds of thousands of protesters spearheaded by women's rights groups demonstrated across the US to send a defiant message to US President Donald Trump.

For better or worse, Ubraniak says women have historically learned «how to meet the needs of the whole,» developing a solid understanding of how groups work and mastering key social skills.

The trend is probably going to persist going forward, the economists suggest, especially as younger groups of women have become more educated — affording them the affluence to work more and spend time with their families while hiring someone else to do the dusting.

A group of 8256 young local women cut the patterns, oversee quality control, and sew the finished AFRIpads.

But the current reality is this: While the number of U.S. companies owned by women is increasing faster than those of other groups, those companies are responsible for just 6 percent of the country's employees and 4 percent of revenue, according to a 2012 report commissioned by American Express Open.

SuperShe, a women - only international group headed by Kristina Roth, will soon open a headquarters and a space for their wellness retreats on a private island off the coast of Finland.

And a recent BMO Financial Group poll finds that while two - thirds of Canadian adults still believe it's more socially acceptable for a woman to be the homemaker, views on the issue are changing.

The leader had separated the men from the women and asked each group to go away and answer one question: What was their personal definition of success?

When tech entrepreneur Kieran Snyder analyzed performance reviews done by a diverse group of managers at a variety of companies a few years ago, she found that constructive feedback given to women included strong elements of «negative personality criticism» that were all but absent from the suggestions for men.

As a former Goldman Sachs VP and the founder of women's networking group 85 Broads, which paired young women with established execs, Hanson's been around both the old and new guard of female leaders.

But slice the data slightly differently, and you'll find an unexpected trend: The group of business owners who are really putting stakes in the ground are women veterans.

This year's awards are open to all Australian business women that meet the entry criteria in the following categories: * Westpac Group Business Owner Award (owners with a 50 per cent share or more in a business, with responsibility for key management decision making); * Australian Government Private and Corporate Sector Award (employees in the private and corporate sectors, or owners with less than a 50 per cent share of a business); * Hudson Community and Government Award (employees of government departments, statutory bodies and not - for - profit organisations); * Panasonic Young Business Women's Award (women aged 30 years and under, with any of the above critewomen that meet the entry criteria in the following categories: * Westpac Group Business Owner Award (owners with a 50 per cent share or more in a business, with responsibility for key management decision making); * Australian Government Private and Corporate Sector Award (employees in the private and corporate sectors, or owners with less than a 50 per cent share of a business); * Hudson Community and Government Award (employees of government departments, statutory bodies and not - for - profit organisations); * Panasonic Young Business Women's Award (women aged 30 years and under, with any of the above criteWomen's Award (women aged 30 years and under, with any of the above critewomen aged 30 years and under, with any of the above criteria).

Contact with women and ethnic minorities lessens unconscious bias, but since neither group is represented much in the upper echelons of business, it can be hard for executives to get that exposure — something not helped by the fact that many white, male higher - ups feel they don't know how to talk to younger women or minorities.

We already know that women business owners are driving the growth in small business, and that within that group, it's women of color who are making the most progress.

In 2006, she joined the game show «Deal or No Deal» and became part of a group of women whose job was to wear matching outfits and hold numbered suitcases.

The reason lesbians earn more than heterosexual women has long been a bit of a mystery, but a group of economists at the University of Nevada have an answer.

«No matter what companies assume about women, you will often see women lead with courage in crisis,» says Kate Bensen, the president and CEO of the women leadership group The Chicago Network.