Sentences with phrase «of women directors at»

Being that the subject was the lack of women directors at Cannes, it was especially disheartening to sit through Loin de Mon Pere (That Lovely Girl) as part of the Un Certain Regard.

Discerning moviegoers attracted by the sheer novelty of a woman director at the helm of such a big movie and willing to give Clooney the benefit of the doubt will ultimately be satisfied by the final product, but it remains to be seen if an average multiplex crowd can be wowed by a movie that sacrifices cheap thrills in favor of global relevance.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

To see a woman step up and take the place of a man thats been accused and is resigning because of his own history with sexual harassment,» said Jean Sinzdak, associate director at the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University.

At the end of 2016, 738 companies — roughly 25 percent of the list — had no women on their boards of directors.

«This has enormous promise in changing the way we do mental health care as well as medical care,» says David Ahern, director of behavioral informatics and e-health at Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital.

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..

The top three companies that had the most female representation were Tootsie Roll Industries at 75 percent (three women of four directors), Connecticut Water Service, Inc., at 62.5 percent (five women of eight directors) and Williams - Sonoma, Inc. (four women of seven directors).

Yet somehow, in the U.S., large public companies can't seem to seem to make any progress at all in getting more women onto their boards of directors.

We even know that, if there is even one woman on a company's board of directors, attendance is better at board meetings.

Income tax is likely the last thing on your mind as the holiday season kicks in, but now is perhaps the best time to start strategizing for your 2015 return, said Manisha Thakor, CFA, director of Wealth Strategies for Women at Buckingham and The BAM Alliance.

Dr. Leah Millheiser, a clinical assistant professor at Stanford University School of Medicine and director of the Female Sexual Medicine program, told INSIDER that she would recommend the copper IUD for any woman who is concerned about her mental health.

At the end of February, Lazard announced that it had named 10 new managing directors worldwide — none of whom were 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.

I have taught and advised hundreds of women who are enormously frustrated at the blockage on boards by over-tenured, over-boarded, entrenched pedigree directors.

The IRS RMD rules can be a bit confusing, and failing to satisfy your annual RMD can be expensive, costing you an excise - tax penalty of up to 50 percent on the amount not distributed as required, warns Manisha Thakor, director of Wealth Strategies for Women at Buckingham and The BAM Alliance, a community of more than 140 independent registered investment advisors throughout the country.

Maya Raghu, director of workplace equality at the National Women's Law Center, says this is not mere «locker room talk.»

While those minorities are spelled out as women, or disadvantaged businesses, or for veterans, LGBT - owned businesses are not specified, says Theresa Harrison, director of supplier diversity at Ernst & Young.

«When you just look at single men and single women, we see single women are more likely give than single men,» said Debra Mesch, director of Women's Philanthropy Instiwomen, we see single women are more likely give than single men,» said Debra Mesch, director of Women's Philanthropy Instiwomen are more likely give than single men,» said Debra Mesch, director of Women's Philanthropy InstiWomen's Philanthropy Institute.

Green joined Rebecca Minkoff, co-founder and creative director of Rebecca Minkoff and Fortune's Michal Lev - Ram at the Most Powerful Women Summit in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday to discuss the future of retail brands.

Sarah Kaplan, director of the Institute for Gender + the Economy at the University of Toronto, worries they push women to the sidelines, instead of levelling the playing field.

Director Jonathan Levine («The Wackness,» «The Night Before») and screenwriter Katie Dippold (2016's «Ghostbusters») were obviously going for an edgy «mom - com,» in which the men are idiots and a story of self - discovery is at the core (Emily helps Ecuadorian women form a human chain to take water from a well, which brings her to an aha moment).

«Part of it is just a matter of responding to an overly crowded market in terms of women's fashion,» explains James Smerdon, director of retail consulting at Colliers.

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.

President Trump fired Secretary of State Rex Tillerson Tuesday morning and said he will replace him with CIA Director Mike Pompeo, who will be supposedly succeeded at the agency by the deputy director Gina Haspel, the first woman to hold the pDirector Mike Pompeo, who will be supposedly succeeded at the agency by the deputy director Gina Haspel, the first woman to hold the pdirector Gina Haspel, the first woman to hold the position.

«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.

So far, half of all states have already established a higher «exit income limit» than «entrance income limit» for child care subsidies, says Karen Schulman, director of child care and early learning research at the National Women's Law Center.

«I often consider the composition of a company's board and executive team to see if their espoused values truly reflect their reality,» says activist Jamia Wilson, the executive director at the non-profit Women, Action, & The Media.

«The extra reward you get in the form of higher yields from stretching on maturity will come back to haunt you should inflation trend upwards faster than expected,» said financial advisor Manisha Thakor, director of wealth strategies for women at The BAM Alliance.

At The Vancouver Board of Trade's 128th AGM, incoming Chair Tim Manning announced an unprecedented decision to elect more women than men to the board of directors — something that has not happened before in the organization's history.

In an interview with USA TODAY following the meeting, Jackson said he stressed the need for Uber to hire more women and underrepresented minorities at all levels of the company, from the board of directors and the executive team to rank - and - file workers.

The ISS study — which looked at directors nominated by dissidents and by the boards themselves in response to activism — found that women made up 8.4 percent of this group, compared with 25 percent of new directors at all S&P 1500 companies in 2015.

«From all research we've done in the past several weeks, The Vancouver Board of Trade is the first and only business organization of our kind in Canada — possibly across North America — to have more women on our board of directors than men,» said Manning, who also serves as Regional Vice-President of Commercial Financial Services at RBC Royal Bank.

Speakers making the case for why it's time to listen to the experts and Canadians — and get down to business and develop a made - in - Canada proportional representation system include Hassan Yussuff, President of the Canadian Labour Congress, Katelynn Northam, electoral reform campaign lead at Leadnow, Farhat Rehman of the Canadian Council of Muslim Women and Annie Bérubé, director of government relations at Équiterre.

Washington, DC --- The Women's Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC) honored Kathy Homeyer, Director of Supplier Diversity at UPS, with the William J. Alcorn Award.

In fact, we recently conducted a survey that found 90 percent of female customers in the US would go out of their way to purchase products from women, believing they would offer higher quality,» stated MiKaela Wardlaw Lemmon, senior director of Women's Economic Empowerment at Walmart «We hope our collaboration with Women's Business Enterprise National Council and WEConnect International will make customers around the world more aware of great products from women - owned businesses, and help these women continue to grow their businesses.&rwomen, believing they would offer higher quality,» stated MiKaela Wardlaw Lemmon, senior director of Women's Economic Empowerment at Walmart «We hope our collaboration with Women's Business Enterprise National Council and WEConnect International will make customers around the world more aware of great products from women - owned businesses, and help these women continue to grow their businesses.&rWomen's Economic Empowerment at Walmart «We hope our collaboration with Women's Business Enterprise National Council and WEConnect International will make customers around the world more aware of great products from women - owned businesses, and help these women continue to grow their businesses.&rWomen's Business Enterprise National Council and WEConnect International will make customers around the world more aware of great products from women - owned businesses, and help these women continue to grow their businesses.&rwomen - owned businesses, and help these women continue to grow their businesses.&rwomen continue to grow their businesses.»

Plus: former Fox News host Gretchen Carlson, NYSE Group COO Stacey Cunningham, Facebook VP Carolyn Everson, CVS EVP Helena Foulkes, Ariel Investments President Mellody Hobson, U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar, Billie Jean King, Instagram COO Marne Levine, Mars director and former Chairman Victoria Mars, fashion entrepreneur Rebecca Minkoff, Ann Romney, Ivanka Trump, designer Diane von Furstenberg, Verizon EVP Marni Walden, U.S. Secretary of the Air Force Dr. Heather Wilson, and Sally Yates, and senior women at leading global companies including Amazon, Airbnb, Apple, AT&T, Coca - Cola, Disney, eBay, Google, Goldman Sachs, IBM, Johnson & Johnson, Microsoft, Nike, PayPal, Procter & Gamble, Salesforce, Starbucks, and Unilever.

«Currently 18 FTSE 100 companies have no female directors at all and nearly half of all FTSE 250 companies do not have a woman in the boardroom.

Unfortunately, the second panel «Integrating diversity into the mining system» was scheduled at a time that overlapped with the Women in Mining cocktail reception, said Tanya van Biesen, who spoke on the second panel and is executive director of Catalyst Canada, a non-profit that works to advance women in the workpWomen in Mining cocktail reception, said Tanya van Biesen, who spoke on the second panel and is executive director of Catalyst Canada, a non-profit that works to advance women in the workpwomen in the workplace.

The MSCI Canada IMI Women's Leadership Select Index is based on the MSCI Canada IMI Index and aims to include companies which are leaders in Canada in terms of female representation on boards and in executive leadership positions and have at least 30 % female directors, or at least three female directors, or two female directors and one woman in a current executive leadership role.

The Atlantic Chapter is pleased to support Global Affairs, Women Influencers — An Evening in Conversation between: Laura Dawson, Director of the Canada Institute at the Wilson Center, Washington, DC and Karen Oldfield, President and CEO, Halifax Port Authority.

10:45 a.m. - 11:45 a.m. Karen Linder Author, Founder Linseed Capital LLC, Co-Founder and President of Tethon 3D Topic: Women at the Top and at the Table: Warren Buffett's Female CEOs and Directors

Part of that clearly has to do with the fact that Daniels is a woman, and a porn actress (and director, and writer) at that, making allegations that have to do with sex.

Co-presented by Scotiabank and KPMG, the WXN awards celebrate and highlight the professional achievements of women across the country in the private, public and not - for - profit sectors at a time when corporate Canada is under growing pressure to promote more female leaders into senior management and corporate director roles.

On November 9, 2015, 10 of the best women - led startups in the Northeast pitched and showcased their innovative and disruptive ventures at Microsoft in Times Square to a panel of investors including Joanne Wilson, Susan Lyne — President of BBG Ventures, Kathryn Finney — Founder and Managing Director of digitalundivided (DID), and Victoria Song — VC at Flybridge.

On International Women's Day, Sarah Kaplan, director of the Institute for Gender and the Economy at the Rotman School of Management, will explain how gender affects economic outcomes.

Dr. Anne Mielnik, director of the Gianna Center, said she has spoken to many women with similar experiences: «their OB / GYN or Family Doctor actually laughed at them, verbally mocked them, or did not take them seriously when they have shared their desire to have a large family, to use NFP, to be faithful to their Catholic beliefs, or to be abstinent until marriage.

David Johnston, author of Earth, Empire and Sacred Text, Christine Schirrmacher, a scholar with the Institute of Islamic Studies of the Evangelical Alliance in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, and Joseph Cumming, director of the reconciliation program at Yale Divinity School, discuss whether Christians should support laws that ban Muslim women from wearing the face veil in public.