Sentences with phrase «of women and their partners»

She has been privileged to offer childbirth education and doula support to hundreds of women and their partners in Greater Cleveland and Akron, Ohio for well over 25 years and basic and advanced doula training since 1997.

Some barriers include the negative attitudes of women and their partners and family members, as well as health care professionals, toward breastfeeding, whereas the main reasons that women do not start or give up breastfeeding are reported to be poor family and social support, perceived milk insufficiency, breast problems, maternal or infant illness, and return to outside employment.2 Several strategies have been used to promote breastfeeding, such as setting standards for maternity services3, 4 (eg, the joint World Health Organization — United Nations Children's Fund [WHO - UNICEF] Baby Friendly Initiative), public education through media campaigns, and health professionals and peer - led initiatives to support individual mothers.5 — 9 Support from the infant's father through active participation in the breastfeeding decision, together with a positive attitude and knowledge about the benefits of breastfeeding, has been shown to have a strong influence on the initiation and duration of breastfeeding in observational studies, 2,10 but scientific evidence is not available as to whether training fathers to manage the most common lactation difficulties can enhance breastfeeding rates.

Overall, according to the survey, 77 percent of women and their partners who experienced a miscarriage go on to tell someone else; for each miscarriage they tell, on average, 2.63 people.

Not exact matches

Only 2 % of venture funding went to female founders in 2017, and just 8 % of partners at the top venture capital firms are women.

That's partly because 94 percent of investing partners at venture firms are male and, female entrepreneurs say, less likely to understand the potential of a business that specifically targets women as customers.

Theresia Gouw, once a partner with Accel Partners, and Fonstad, formerly managing director at Draper Fisher Jurvetson, founded Aspect Ventures; Aileen Lee left Kleiner Perkins to launch seed fund Cowboy Ventures; Gilt Groupe's former CEO Susan Lyne hatched AOL's BBG (Built by Girls) Ventures; serial entrepreneur Anu Duggal launched the Female Founders Fund with the express purpose of investing in women.

Ellis and partner Nikolay Djibankov use a strategy called Gender Lens Investment, which targets companies with at least three women on their boards of directors, in the creation of a so - called «parity portfolio» for clients.

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.

Christine Tsai, one of the founding partners of 500Startups, says that's partly because half of the accelerator's management team is women, and almost half of the investment team is women.

Only 2 % of venture funding went to female founders, and just 8 % of partners at the top venture capital firms are women.

Broadly, there tend to be more men in high - paying fields like technology, and more women in lower - paid ones such as education, creating much of the imbalance, said management consultant Steve Tobak, managing partner for Invisor Consulting in California.

The number of women partners at the firm is one of the highest within the venture capital arena and the firm has actively supported women in all respects.

The Firm has been a diversity pioneer in its industry and was one of the first venture capital firms to hire women as partners.

They will also determine which organizations they will partner with to help build out the pipeline of women and minorities with tech - job skills.

According to Sona Wang, quoted in a Crain's Chicago Business article and general partner of Inroads Capital Partners, an Evanston venture capital firm that specializes in backing women and minorities, the venture capital business «clearly relies heavily on the old - boy network.»

Through the SBA, you can get business plan assistance through its various resource partners, which includes Women's Business Centers, Small Business Development Centers and Service Corps of Retired Executives.

Phin Barnes, a partner at First Round Capital and an investor in startup Modern Fertility, says the number of pitches he sees from companies addressing women's health care has increased about 10 times in the past five years.

It's simple: my partners are women, and an irrefutable fact of style is that women can wear all black and men, typically, can not.

Check out the three reasons bootstrapping has been crucial to Elle Kaplan, CEO and founding partner of Lexion Capital Management, the only 100 percent woman - owned asset management firm in the U.S.

Women account for only 22 percent of accredited angel investors and 6 percent of partners at venture capital firms.

Investing in women is smart business, says Kathryn Swintek, general partner and member of the Investment Committee of Golden Seeds Fund 2, part of New York - based angel network Golden Seeds, which comprises more than 275 investors, 80 percent of whom are women.

A recent study from Babson College found that venture capital firms with female partners are more than three times as likely to invest in companies with female CEOs than firms led by all - male teams, but the percentage of women in the VC industry has dropped from 10 % to 6 % since 1999 — and only 2.7 % of VC - backed companies have a female CEO.

To compile the proposals, Wu partnered with professors from Harvard, the International Women's Media Foundation, and the social services agency Digital Sisters, which she calls «a pow - wow of high - level feminists.»

«Women — from executives to engineers to driver partners — have helped build Uber into the company it is today,» she tells Inc. «We're proud of the culture we're creating here and the positive impact we're having on communities around the world.»

Along with other female venture capital partners, Lee is launching Female Founder Office Hours — a series of events at which investors will talk with and advise women entrepreneurs in one - on - one sessions.

In 1988, along with Bob Steel and some other future Goldman leaders — former co-presidents John Thornton and John Thain, billionaire investor J. Christopher Flowers, hedge - fund manager Frank Brosens, and Gary Gensler, now head of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission — Blankfein was one of thirty - six men (not a single woman) named general partners.

At an all - staff meeting to reveal the results of attorney Eric Holder's investigation into Uber's cultural issues, TPG founding partner and Uber board member David Bonderman made a sexist joke about how women talk too much.

Another 2016 report from the National Venture Capital Association and Deloitte University Leadership Center for Inclusion found that 11 percent of investment partners at 217 firms are women.

It was founded by PR exec Audrey Gelman and business partner Lauren Kassan, and was inspired by the women's social clubs of the early 20th century.

Gouw and Fonstad are two of the highest - profile women in the venture capital industry, with Gouw having been a partner at Accel and Fonstad a managing director at Draper Fisher Jurvetson.

«Indiegogo has proven to be the perfect, like - minded partner in this experiential endeavor at Sundance to asset the importance and beauty of filmmakers of color and women filmmakers.»

Examine the reasons why so few women choose to enter or stay in venture capital roles and call on the venture capital industry to do more to recruit and promote women investors to partner level roles in order to increase the number of women investment professionals

And venture is not alone; only 5 percent of the S&P 500 index has a female CEO; 3 percent of U.S. senior leadership teams are racially diverse; 8 percent of law firm equity partners are individuals of color; and 18 percent of the largest nonprofits ($ 50 million + budgets) are run by women, despite an overwhelmingly (75 percent) female employee baAnd venture is not alone; only 5 percent of the S&P 500 index has a female CEO; 3 percent of U.S. senior leadership teams are racially diverse; 8 percent of law firm equity partners are individuals of color; and 18 percent of the largest nonprofits ($ 50 million + budgets) are run by women, despite an overwhelmingly (75 percent) female employee baand 18 percent of the largest nonprofits ($ 50 million + budgets) are run by women, despite an overwhelmingly (75 percent) female employee base.

In tandem with the 100,000 Opportunity Youth Initiative, Starbucks has opened four stores with classroom and training space as part of its effort to support local economic development in diverse low - to - medium income communities across the U.S.. Each of these stores creates 20 to 25 new jobs with benefits, partners with a local women - and minority - owned supplier and contractor, and works with local nonprofits to provide job - skills training to youth.

She described her months with Trump the way that kind of woman would describe her romance with the investment banker or law partner she married: She loved that he was «an interesting person; he's brilliant»; she was attracted to his good looks and «great posture.»

«All of the business partners that we have, such as our printer and our web designer, are all women - owned businesses themselves.»

As part of its commitment to investing in the community and partnering with women - and minority - owned businesses, Starbucks is also working with Rachel Bernier - Green, owner of Laine's Bake Shop, to supply a Red Velvet Cheesecake Brownie to the store in Englewood.

We're happy to announce that for the second year in a row, three of CMIT Solutions» franchise partners have made CRN magazine's annual «Women of the Channel» list, the most prominent and prestigious roster of women in the IT sales chaWomen of the Channel» list, the most prominent and prestigious roster of women in the IT sales chawomen in the IT sales channel:

In fact, she credits the success of ISHR Group with bringing on two amazing women business partners, defying the notion that «friends can't be business partners and business partners can't be friends.»

Twenty percent of law firm partners are women, for instance, and 19 percent of partners in U.S. accounting firms are women.

-- 7 percent of investing partners at the top 100 venture and micro-venture firms are women.

Below are charts that rank the top 100 firms according to the number of female partners and the percentage of partners who are women.

That outcome reinforces our finding that 7 percent of partners in the top 100 firms are women and suggests that the pattern at the top firms is representative across the industry.

Women hold just under 12 percent of the partner roles at both accelerators and corporate venture firms.

It is interesting to note that Scale Venture Partners and Greycroft Partners, two of the firms with the highest percentage of female partners, 33 percent each, were co-founded by women, as was FlPartners and Greycroft Partners, two of the firms with the highest percentage of female partners, 33 percent each, were co-founded by women, as was FlPartners, two of the firms with the highest percentage of female partners, 33 percent each, were co-founded by women, as was Flpartners, 33 percent each, were co-founded by women, as was Floodgate.

While she and her female partners were fund - raising in March, one investor told them that they should marry for money, that he liked it when women fought back because he would always win, and that they needed more attractive photos of themselves in their presentation.

If we single out firms that have both a high number of rounds in female - founded firms and those rounds also represent a high percentage of their total, we find a small collection of firms that share a clear attribute: The partnership was either founded by a woman and / or there is a relatively high percentage of female partners.

From the WBE who doubled her business after meeting a supplier at a WBENC conference, to two small women - owned businesses partnering to scale up to meet the needs of a large corporation, these stories help showcase the benefits of certification and being a part of the WBENC network.

Only 6 % of VC partners today are women, Gates added, and a mere 3 % of companies led by women get VC funding.

Results from the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada's 2015 National Opinion Poll (NOP) indicate that women are less likely than men to support investment from major Asian trading partners such as China, Japan, India, and South Korea.