Sentences with phrase «of woman power»

Mix «em into your commute, your workout, or even your work playlist for an instant boost of woman power.

The main objective of Women Powering Business and DWEN is for the women in our network to do real business with us and we've seen real business happen.

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Other online movements such as #BlackGirlMagic, which Julee Wilson from the Huffington Post described as a way to «celebrate the beauty, power and resilience of black women,» have spurred brands to expand shade offerings addressing the vast spectrum of skin tones and take an all - encompassing approach to marketing mixes further fueling success.

-- Sallie Krawcheck, co-founder and CEO of digital investment platform Ellevest and author of Own It: The Power of Women at Work

Melinda Gates told The New Yorker men who «demean, degrade, or disrespect women» have been able to operate in industries like tech and venture capital, and that «the asymmetry of power is ripe for abuse.»

But the former dominatrix says the very premise all of her trainings is based on — the idea that hidden power dynamics often impact minorities and women in unfair ways — seemed totally foreign to so many would - be students five years ago when she started teaching.

When Kasia Urbaniak first started a new kind of power - training school for women, she had a tough time getting people to understand what the place was all about.

But as women, there are particular hurdles that can make the journey upward toward positions of power and influence — in myriad spheres — especially challenging.

And women, especially women in positions of power, too often neglect their own professional development.

The show has never shied away from capturing the intricacies of women — their strength, their vulnerabilities, their power, and their struggles.

Can you talk about why your mission of giving women the tools to educate themselves about their finances and get that power is so important?

2017 was full of revelations about the ugly things that can happen when men hold positions of power over women.

Both men and women of good conscience are fearlessly acknowledging the elephant in the room — the disturbing, age - old trend of men in power taking advantage of their status to prey on women (and other men) working below them.

Women of late are speaking up more loudly than ever before about the experiences they've had with men who have abused their privilege and their power.

Achieving wealth after losing a such a significant portion of your earning power can hobble even the most focused woman's economic plans.

The women note that while they «fully endorse the conversation around abuse of power in the workplace,» they would like to share their own experiences of working with Brokaw.

Advocates argue that subsidized daycare pays for itself (and is better for the economy): More women are able to enter or re-enter the workforce, increasing families» purchasing power and the amount of taxes paid.

In the BBC article, Eden King exposes a root cause of sexual harassment: «A belief that women are inferior to men, the belief that men should have power over women,» and, she adds, a belief that «men should be aggressors and women should be gatekeepers.»

Often, these kinds of interactions can skew power dynamics in relationships between men and women, and leave the men coming out on top.

[Single women] are a very discriminating buyer,» says Karen Krupsaw, vice president of real estate operations at Redfin, a technology - powered real estate company.

While other designed - for - women firearms have come and gone in the past 22 years, a version of that first LadySmith is still around today, and it relies on quality design, not a pink - toned grip, for its staying — and stopping — power.

Though the behavior of «playful Sue» may sound outlandish to some women, there are no shortage of high - powered and deeply serious professional women that admit to using their feminine charms to get what they want, including Clinton - era Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, who has admitted to flirting with male foreign leaders on the job.

What's more, Ellevate will reportedly use a portion of membership fees from its network of high - profile, high - power women to invest in its own index.

They've launched a new campaign through the Tory Burch Foundation which aims to highlight the power of ambitious women.

«In our celebrity focused culture, a young star like Emma Watson has the power to amplify important social messages,» says Katie Hood, a senior fellow at Duke University who teaches a «Women as Leaders» course and who recently became executive director of the anti-domestic violence One Love Foundation.

The discussion is raw and unrehearsed, and listeners walk away with proof of the power women have to take control of their lives and careers.

Imagine the compelling power of telling a potential investor or retail buyer that 89 % of women 35 - 45 years old selected your product over a competitor and of that group 71 % said they would tell their friends.

Unilever, the parent company of dozens of household brands such as Dove, stopped producing ads featuring gender stereotypes in 2016 upon determining that a mere 2 percent of all ads feature intelligent women, 3 percent show women in positions of power and 1 percent portray women with a sense of humor, Fortune reports.

On the other hand, it's never wise to bet against the power of 19 - year - old women.

«Organizations wait until a crisis to bring women into positions of power because they realize the current strategy isn't working and a new approach is needed,» says Sylvia Ann Hewlett, founder and CEO of the Center for Talent Innovation.

We talk about grit all the time here at Spartan Race but Dr. Angela Lee Duckworth is the woman who literally wrote the book about it (or at least she will be when Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance is published May 3 by Scribner).

Her work to advance women and underrepresented populations is a perfect example of why it is important to diversify those in the seats of power.

Many women instinctively understand the power of dressing for success at work.

Going through that process made me realize what an immense pool of talent we have in Canada — there is a huge pipeline — and what power we have when women engage in initiatives and objectives together.»

I'm hoping that at some point we'll be able to see the lists of life goals of the men and women, and of the upsides and downsides to power that both listed.

#TEDWomen2015 «about the power of women and girls.»

Elevating more women and underrepresented minorities to positions of power is becoming a business imperative for the firm, with clients demanding diversity in their legal teams, Erickson says.

But in the Harvard research, the women understood perfectly well the benefits of having power, or at least understood them the same way that the men did.

Gino, in an email exchange, told me that some in the audience interpreted her research to say that, «women are not ambitious or that women should not be offered positions of power.»

«He could also give them fame, which is one of few ways for women to gain some semblance of power and voice inside a patriarchal world.»

Hartmann believes that the dearth of women in positions of political power is directly related to the wage gap and their lack of power in the business world.

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.

Much has been written about why more women aren't awarded positions of power, and many proposed solutions have been subject to great debate.

«Just because Peter Thiel is a Silicon Valley billionaire, his opinion does not trump our millions of readers who know us for routinely driving big news stories including Hillary Clinton's secret email account, Bill Cosby's history with women, the mayor of Toronto as a crack smoker, Tom Cruise's role within Scientology, the N.F.L. cover - up of domestic abuse by players and just this month the hidden power of Facebook to determine the news you see.»

Because without real, genuine penalties on the line, without generations of men fearing that if they abuse their power, if they treat women like s — t, they'll be out of jobs, shamed, their families devastated — without that actual, electric, dangerous possibility: Nothing.

Women in power make a lot of people very nervous.

That's why Unilever and other businesses large and small are working to figure out how to effectively tap into the spending power of African Americans — $ 1.2 trillion, largely controlled by black women.

Quinn says the firm is committed to increasing the number of women with the power to make investments.

It was a sobering moment in the career of a woman who during 12 years in power became a symbol of stability, leading the euro zone during the debt crisis and seeking compromise within the European Union on a deal with Turkey to stem migrant arrivals.

As an investor in the online accessories company Stella & Dot, Spector had seen «the power of women selling to other women, as well as their buying power.»