Sentences with phrase «of women executives»

On the professional side, I volunteer as a Director on the board of the Canadian Association of Women Executives and Entrepreneurs.

We need to promote mentorship and look at what initiatives can make an impact, like slashing the wage gap and increasing the number of women executives.»

Catalyst maintains a list of women executives.

In this #EntMETalks episode, speaking at the sidelines of Naseba's 19th Global Women in Leadership (WIL) Economic Forum 2017, Al Rifai says it's the responsibility of every woman executive to share their stories to inspire others striving to climb the corporate ladder.

Not exact matches

Accenture has also worked on ways to get more women into senior leadership positions (they've changed the interview process so that candidates of both genders get to know more members in the executive ranks) and to retain them (implementing a one - year no - travel policy for employees who are new mothers and fathers).

A Babson College study reported that in 1999, fewer than 5 percent of venture capital investments went to companies with a woman on the executive team.

Only two years later, in 2013, companies with a woman on the executive team were attracting 18 percent of venture investments.

Angie Paskevicius, the chief executive of non-for-profit drug and alcohol support service Holyoake, has been named the 2015 Telstra Western Australia business woman of the year.

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

«I've done a lot of formal mentoring through the Women's Executive Network, and then there's the informal stuff: People call me up all the time and ask if we can chat.

Because so much of its business is tied up in a few particular styles, a single manufacturing error — like the one that forced executives to recall the near - seethrough women's pants in March — can cause millions of dollars in lost sales.

A quarter of the women in the survey are in the highest executive ranks, 11 percent are founders, and 11 percent are in venture.

Canadian companies even have a new resource to turn to in their quest for female candidates: a recruiting firm launched last year by Pamela Jeffery, founder of the Women's Executive Network.

Robbie Rietbroek, Chief Executive of PepsiCo introduced a policy to counteract the moth culture and ensure flexibility for both men and women in the work place.

A parade of business executives broke ties with Trump on Wednesday, a day after he blamed white nationalists and counter-protesters in equal measure for the weekend clashes that left one woman dead.

Executives and analysts have said the women's business and footwear sold to both genders are some of the greatest potential sales drivers.

Of 18 Apple senior level executives, three are women, one is black.

A very famous entrepreneur once told me that she left her great executive role because, simply, «one woman standing in a room full of old white men wasn't going to do very much.»

While Intel has the same number of women Google does, it also has 22 male executives.

What's more, one of the women in the Equilar 100, Oracle's (orcl) Safra Catz, tied with her co-CEO, Mark Hurd, for the title of highest paid chief executive, raking in $ 53.2 last year, significantly boosting the women's average.

«This lack of benefits has hindered women from looking beyond the childbearing years to reach the executive positions that enable them to enter the pipeline for board - level positions.»

Progress has been slow when it comes to getting more women into executive roles (the number of female board members is climbing but just 13 percent of these female board members are employed as executives).

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.

Last year, women made up more than half of newly appointed HR executives, a role that's typically responsible for ensuring a company can acquire and develop the staff it needs to execute the larger business plan.

Guns designed and marketed for women aren't entirely new, says Peggy Tartaro, executive editor of Women and Guns magawomen aren't entirely new, says Peggy Tartaro, executive editor of Women and Guns magaWomen and Guns magazine.

According to Goldman's latest numbers, from July 2016, 22 percent of the firm's executives and senior «officials and managers» are women, while 82 percent are white.

In the US, for example, companies with at least one woman executive saw a return - on - assets of 8.6 percent.

«As one part of a global effort to make the Web more responsive to women's safety, security, and enjoyment, I can't help but stand up and applaud,» Anita Sarkeesian, executive editor of Feminist Frequency says.

«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.

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.

Women make up a quarter of his eight - member executive leadership team and account for four of 10 seats on the board of directors.

Though only 1.3 % of all privately held companies have a female founder, 6.5 % have a female CEO, and 20 % have one or more female C - level executives, these high - ranking women of the start - up world weren't evenly distributed, according to the report:

Where black women make up only 1.5 % of senior - level executives in the private sector, there's been some tremendous growth among entrepreneurs.

Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg and top editorial and marketing executives weigh in on why it's increasingly becoming good business to present strong, modern images of women in ad campaigns.

The typical image of a chief executive is a smartly - dressed man or woman in a boardroom or behind a desk.

Executives also feared that quotas would result in too many women being appointed because they were the daughters, wives or sisters of prominent men, rather than women who were successful on their own merits.

«If you see a colleague being sexually harassed, or hear comments about women that are demeaning or derogatory, say something in that moment,» Noreen A. Farrell, executive director of Equal Rights Advocates, tells CNBC Make It.

The National Association of Female Executives makes women aware of the need to plan for career and financial success.

Those battles are still being fought by three - dimensional women in the engineering departments of tech companies, in political campaigns, and in the plush offices of VCs and studio executives.

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.

According to this research, a profitable company in which 30 percent of the top executives are women would expect to be about 15 percent more profitable than one in which the C suite is all male.

Many large organizations have embraced such regulations, including the NFL (where «The Rooney Rule,» is named for early proponent and Pittsburgh Steelers owner Dan Rooney), Pinterest, Facebook and RBC, the latter of which has a goal of granting half of new executive appointments to women and one in five to members of visible minority groups.

She has been honored by Latina Style as Latina Executive of the Year in 2010, and by Fortune as one of the 50 Most Powerful Women in Business in 2012, 2013, and 2014.

In addition to figures like Harvey Weinstein, Kevin Spacey, and Louis C.K., Andrew Kreisberg - an executive producer on superhero dramas «The Flash,» «Arrow,» «Supergirl,» and «Legends of Tomorrow» — was fired after 19 women and men who worked on the shows described being subjected to or witnessing incidents of inappropriate touching and endemic sexual harassment.

CNBC's Wilfred Frost reports the highlights from his conversation with Susie Huang, Morgan Stanley head of M&A, at the Morgan Stanley Executive Women's Conference.

Ruiz has been honored by Latina Style as Latina Executive of the Year in 2010, and by Fortune magazine as one of the 50 Most Powerful Women in Business in 2012, 2013, and 2014.

As a busy Manhattan executive and workout guru, founder of the DB Method Erika Rayman wanted to create a product for women who were frustrated with doing boring exercises and never seeing any results.

Earlier in the day, Kasowitz sent a letter to Times executive editor Dean Baquet accusing the newspaper of publishing a «libelous article» with respect to a report, first published online on Wednesday evening, in which two women accused Trump of touching (and in one case kissing) them inappropriately in separate incidents.

Even among chief executive officers, women make just over 72 % of what male counterparts earn in weekly salary, according to data recently released by The Institute for Women's Policy Research to coincide with Equal Pay Day (Aprilwomen make just over 72 % of what male counterparts earn in weekly salary, according to data recently released by The Institute for Women's Policy Research to coincide with Equal Pay Day (AprilWomen's Policy Research to coincide with Equal Pay Day (April 12).

In the Bentley University survey, 37 percent of the men responding to the survey agreed that male managers and executives can play a more active role in mentoring and developing women to better succeed in the business world.