Sentences with phrase «of women studying»

Interpolation — the main task of the women studying ballistics in WW2 — is the construction or guessing of missing data using only two known data points.

Your equivalent of women studying their vagina's is not good for your critical thinking skills.

Moritz, a former Time magazine journalist, went on to lament the lower numbers of women studying math and sciences as the reason why it's so difficult for the firm to hire more women — a popular excuse often used by the tech companies with low diversity numbers.

Only nine women (3.6 % of all women studied) had a home birth as well as a supportive general practitioner and a midwife they already knew.

In a qualitative analysis of survivors during labor, Rhoades and Hutchinson 10 describe how some of the women they studied would remove themselves mentally and emotionally from labor.

«Overall, in the whole group of women we studied, women who had breastfed were 25 % less likely to develop premenopausal breast cancer than women who had never breastfed,» says Stuebe, who conducted the research while at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston.

In that sense, blogging is like playing guitar in a rock and roll band — lots of women study music, but far more men seem compelled to get up on stage and show off those skills in a very public way (trust me — the band I'm in formed when we were all very male and very single... and we knew exactly what we were doing).

Meanwhile, 59 % of the women studied biology, health, or chemistry — as compared to only 27 % of the men.

Participants with high - risk bacterial communities, which are commonly found in the population of women studied, also had increased numbers of genital CD4 + T cells — white blood cells that are HIV's primary target.

«Since only 25 percent of the women we studied were older than 40, we anticipate the rate of diagnosis would rise as these women continue to age.»

Fifty three percent of women studied received DM and 47 percent received DBT.

Initiating drug therapy during pregnancy caused rapid declines in viral load, but more than 95 percent of women studied reported at least one side effect before delivery, which may lower adherence.

Forty - six percent of the women studied had an insufficient decrease in blood pressure from daytime to nighttime, which is unhealthy.

One Swedish study found that levels of enterolactone and enterodiol in the blood that were above the median of the women studied were associated with lower risk of reduced ERα + and ERβ - breast cancer, but not ERβ + or other subtypes of breast cancer.

According to a recent survey conducted by Clue, one of my fave period and ovulation tracking apps, only 79 of the 350 pairs of women studied had cycles that, over a 3 - month period, started to sync up.

She has been Education Programme Officer in NYHQ, Head of Development Studies and Senior Lecturer (Kenyatta University, Kenya), External Examiner for the Department of Women Studies, (Makerere University, Uganda), and Chief of Education in Uganda.

Not exact matches

Earlier this year, for example, Judy Zaichkowsky of Simon Fraser University's Beedie School of Business published a study indicating that the presence of just one woman on a company's board resulted in significantly higher standards of corporate governance (which has an established correlation to better financial performance).

This sweet, rich oil was shown to do some pretty nifty things for abdominally obese women in a 2009 study out of Brazil, including decreasing their waist circumference, increasing beneficial HDL (high - density lipoprotein) cholesterol and improving the ratio of «bad» LDL (low - density lipoprotein) to «good» HDL cholesterol.

Case in point, a recent study from Abertay University in Scotland found that a woman that's seen as wearing too much makeup can affect people's perception of her ability to lead.

That meant her studies produced data on how men and women approached various negotiating games both before and after the election of Donald Trump (these negotiations were generally conducted via chat so they could be objectively scored by other experts).

This is not the first study to find bias against the work of women.

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.

Overall, HPV is the most common sexually transmitted infection in the United States, with one 2007 JAMA study detecting the virus in 27 % of the nearly 2,000 women tested between the ages of 14 and 59.

According to the Wells Fargo / Gallup study, women business owners said their top three sources of initial funding for their business are cash or savings (85 percent), personal credit cards (37 percent) and financial gifts or support from family or friends (29 percent).

After reading this study, I'm wondering if perhaps women entrepreneurs face very different social environments than the men do, even outside of tech enclaves like Silicon Valley.

This «Super Slow» form of resistance training was popularized by inventor Ken Hutchins who conducted the «Nautilus Osteoporosis Study» and found the slow - moving controlled exercise approach to be effective in building bone density in elderly women with osteoporosis.

When the study sent out blind résumés (résumés with no indication of gender), fewer women were hired than when names (which generally indicate gender) were included.

The shocking part is that we claim that women aren't studying STEM subjects at school and aren't entering tech careers in the U.S. because of discrimination and oppression, but in countries where women don't have a lot of rights (and granted, those rights vary drastically even within Middle Eastern countries), they manage to succeed in STEM in school.

According to a Yale study conducted by U.S. economist Daniel Hamermesh, attractive men can earn 9 percent more than their average - looking colleagues, while attractive women could see a bump of up to 4 percent.

Women's under - representation on boards and in top management positions has long been the subject of academic study and, more recently, public policy.

A recent study by human resource consulting firm Morneau Shepell has found that, when it comes to counselling services, 63.9 % of participants are women.

The study argues that specialized incubators — those especially for women or people of color — are not the answer, on the grounds that these targeted incubators and accelerators don't provide the same opportunities for entrepreneurs to network within their industries.

A 2010 University of Brasilia study found that 1 in 5 Brazilian women under 40 — more than 5 million women overall, or about 22 % of Brazil's population — had had at least one abortion.

According to the 2010 study, about 42 % of women have their first abortion between the ages of 12 and 19, and about about 23 % of women with less than a fourth - grade education have had an abortion.

One memorable example is the much covered study that revealed large percentages of people (a quarter of women and two thirds of men) prefer giving themselves a painful electric shock to just sitting with their own thoughts for 15 minutes.

A large 2011 study of close to 39,000 older women over 25 years found that women who took them in the long term actually had a higher overall risk of death than those who did not.

And finally, a decade - long study of nearly 720,000 UK women concluded that happiness does «not appear to have any direct effect on mortality.»

It happened because a lot of women back then had studied math, and their skills were in demand.

On top of the problem of unfair pay for women, a Harvard study revealed that, when it comes to annual performance reviews, women were 1.4 times more likely to receive critical subjective feedback, not positive feedback or critical objective feedback, and that traits that were considered negative in women were often interpreted as positive in men.

The Times article cited a study published in the journal Psychological Science, which found that when happily married women held their spouses» hand while they received mild electric shocks, the parts of their brain associated with pain were less active than when they weren't holding their spouse's hand.

For the study, 22 men and women from Division I golf programs in the Midwest practiced putting in silence and while listening to different genres of music, including classical, country, jazz, and hip - hop / rap.

According to a study conducted by Baloonr, about 35 percent of respondents said the best way to addressing the issue in the startup tech worldis to put more women in leadership roles.

In a 2012 study by Bentley University, 40 percent of 1,000 millennial women and 33 percent of millennial men said they were interested in working from home.

LYNE: Every study of consumer buying points to the fact that women aren't just the dominant consumer, but are either responsible for, or have the final say on, 80 % of all consumer purchases.

Today, 23 percent of women earn more than their husbands, up from 4 percent who did in 1960, according to a Pew Research Center study released this week.

Indeed, according to another study by Catalyst, only 10.3 % of board seats in this country are held by women.

The fact that the VC industry is so male — 89 % of partners — doesn't help, Wiedenmiller says, noting a Stanford study saying that in 2013 women entrepreneurs received only 4.2 % of VC funding.

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 organization's studies show that the number of women in Canada who hold senior officer positions in the corporate sector increased just 4 % between 2002 and 2010.

A heap of evidence shows women are assessed differently when it comes to confidence, likability and self - promotion, so the researchers only recruited male study subjects, as they put it, «to control for potentially confounding effects of gender.»