Sentences with phrase «of women at work»

An expert on mentoring, sponsorship, and leadership, much of her practice is devoted to promoting the advancement of women at work.

The provisions in question violate the right to equality of women at work because they create conditions that substantially diminish several other rights and benefits conferred by the Pay Equity Act.

We owe it to the initiative of David Cohen, director of exhibitions at the New York Studio School, that an expanded version of Women at Work has now come to New York.

Sallie Krawcheck's Own It: The Power of Women At Work is a fantastic book.

One of the women at work did a weekly night shift with the Samaritans, and she'd told Jude all about it.

On a recent morning, the 35 students in Brouhard's combination 4th - 5th grade class, one of three history classes she teaches each day, were studying slides of women at work in the Richmond Shipyards during World War II.

Oakland Unified history teacher Jennifer Brouhard discusses perceptions of women at work in the Richmond shipyards with 5th graders Luca Paz and Helenna Rekic.

October 17, 2012 • Twenty - five years ago this week, Hollywood was offering two very different visions of women at work.

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

Not exact matches

«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.

«I'm working to create a space where it feels easy to include and imagine black girls and make black girls like me the main characters of our lives,» Dias said at Forbes» Women Summit in New York City last year.

Taking the advice and working closely with Gekko, Fox soon finds himself swept into a world of «yuppies», shady business deals, the «good life», fast money, and fast women; something which is at odds with his family including his estranged father and the blue - collared way Fox was brought up.

A lot of women will have been working doggedly for at least a decade before we achieve these personal milestones.

After working as a director and senior merchant at Victoria's Secret, Michelle Cordeiro Grant wanted to create a new experience and point of view in the lingerie category, one that delivers simple, quality products and reflects the healthy, confident, and beautiful women wearing them.

«A lot of women said the products worked for them but were too inconvenient to make at home,» says Eltigani.

SmartAsset looked at the median earnings for full - time working women, as well as the number of women with high - level degrees and those who own businesses.

Women walk by a team of volunteer lawyers in their makeshift office working to assist travelers detained as part of Donald Trump's travel ban in Terminal 4 at John F. Kennedy International Airport in Queens, New York.

According to a 2016 report from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, as many as 85 percent of women have experienced some form of sexual harassment at work.

When she finished in January 1945, her calculus teacher showed her a flier soliciting women mathematicians to work at the University of Pennsylvania, where women were working as «computers» — humans who performed routinized math tasks — mainly calculating artillery trajectory tables for the Army.

Comparing full - time, year - round workers, women earn 77 cents for every dollar men earn, said Dana Britton, director of the Center for Women and Work at Rutgers University in Newark, women earn 77 cents for every dollar men earn, said Dana Britton, director of the Center for Women and Work at Rutgers University in Newark, Women and Work at Rutgers University in Newark, N.J..

For example, Warshay worked with a pair of entrepreneurs who spent time in the prenatal vitamin section at Whole Foods, where they discovered women didn't like the large size of vitamin pills and potential side effects of nausea and constipation.

When Jennings showed up in March 1945, at age 20, there were approximately 70 women at Penn working on desktop adding machines and scribbling numbers on huge sheets of paper.

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 study by Accenture found that, for at least half of men and women, «work - life balance» is the number one determiner of whether or not they have a successful career.

The only woman to serve as the head of the U.S. central bank described her work at the Fed as «the core of my existence.»

A woman in Brazil has apparently won the legal right to masturbate at work — frequently — nd to watch porn on her work computer as part of that activity.

It's also easy to prejudge the situations, intentions, and attitudes of the women who work at a place like Hooters, and to cry out «exploitation» without truly understanding, say, the point of view of an actual Hooters Girl.

As a teen, she spent time working with children born to women in prison and volunteered at a relief camp in the wake of a devastating earthquake in 2005.

Fraley and her sister Ada Wyn, part of a massive influx of women into the U.S. workforce during WWII, went to work at a Naval Air Station in Alameda, Calif., after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, according to the Times.

The company also maintains an unwritten policy of rewarding employees who work late over those who arrive early and leave at the end of a normal work - day, making it difficult for women with children, according to the complaint.

Stories like Dar's are newly resonant as a wide swath of industries are confronting the powerful men who harass and abuse women at work.

That's because, of the women who work at Google, fewer of them have roles within the highest paying jobs at Google.

So, in theory at least, serving anti-abortion ads to women of child - bearing age who have been reading about abortion online and who come near an abortion clinic is a spot - on example of how marketing should work when it's well tuned.

«I tell the people I work with that they should be Vikings or pirates,» Bridget van Kralingen, SVP of Industry Platforms at IBM (ibm), told attendees of last week's Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit in Washington, D.C. And what exactly does that mean?

«It just happened at a time that women were beginning to work and that little dress that was both feminine but empowered them became a symbol of that time and became a symbol of women's emancipation,» she said.

The author of Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead (Knopf, March 2013) and founder of LeanIn.org, Sandberg spoke this morning at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing conference in Minneapolis.

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

«This case is of particular importance because so many working women are now working well into their pregnancy,» says Katherine Kimpel, a lawyer at Sanford Heisler who specializes in gender and race discrimination and who filed an amicus brief in the case supporting Young.

Economists treat parental leave, both for women and men, as a simple cost - benefit problem: in theory, at least, if a woman's wage is greater than the cost of replacing her in the home, then she should spend her time working and hire someone else to care for her children.

Along with working at Goldman Sachs and running her startup, she was the co-head of the Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital Club and a member of the Darden Capital Management Club, Retail and Luxury Goods Club, and the Graduate Women in Business.

Carla Harris, Morgan Stanley's vice chairman of wealth management and senior client adviser, says that leaders often fail black women by not being candid about how their direct reports can improve at work, advance in their careers, or course - correct when something goes wrong.

The number of women, African - Americans and Hispanics employed at companies such as Google, Facebook and Yahoo lag far behind the U.S. work force as a whole; meanwhile, only 3 percent of venture funding is earmarked for female founders, and founders of color claim less than 1 percent, according to U.S. chief technology officer Megan Smith.

At a time when working women must still fight for equal pay, outperform to be taken seriously in the boardroom, and hustle over the mere fraction of all investment spending open to them, a Trump presidency is seen as a blow for many.

Pari Karem, general manager of immigrant services at the YMCA in Kitchener, Ont., works directly with newcomer youth and women.

For Christie's, the week started with the $ 179.4 million sale of Pablo Picasso's Women of Algiers (Version 0), the most ever paid for a work of art at auction.

«To all of you that have something nasty to say about me or other women who are built like me, women whose names you know, women whose names you don't, women who've been picked on, women whose husbands put them down, women at work or girls in school, I have one thing to say to you: kiss my fat ass,» she said.

Seminars on work - life balance that use terms like «biological clock» and «mompreneur» are tired clichés at women's conferences, but increasingly it's not just working women who are feeling the pressures of having plenty of ambition and money, but no time.

In 2013, researchers at the Monell Chemical Senses Center had participants watch videos of women in everyday situations, like working in an office and taking care of a child.

While there are lots of potential ways we could help working mothers, one that may seem counterintuitive is to focus less on the handful of women at the top — just 28 of Canada's 500 largest companies are headed by women — and to emphasize instead the successes happening in the middle.

Sandi MacPherson, who founded the online community Quibb, started working last year with tech conference organizers to help recruit women to fill at least half of the speaking slots.