Sentences with phrase «on women team»

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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.

Last October, I looked around the table during a Lessonly board meeting and thought to myself, «How do the women on the team feel when they walk past this room and see a bunch of men making big decisions on their behalf?»

Disney knows princesses, and it turns out on the filmmaking team, there's an unusually large number of women.

For those who do pursue this line of work, often they are the only women on their team.

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

She said that while men are expected to be «assertive, look out for themselves, and lobby for more,» women are expected to be «communal and collaborative, nurturing and giving, focused on the team and not themselves, lest they be viewed as self - absorbed.»

Now, Keir Dillon and his six - person team at Frends are on a mission to seize a large swath of the market with premium headphones for women that are treated more like designer handbags than the «shrink - it - and - pink - it» products that had plagued the category to that point.

Necole Parker (woman in the front row, on the left, in a suit), the founder of The ELOCEN Group, with her team.

The film has not only put a long deserved spotlight on the team of African - American women who literally charted the course that would eventually put man on the moon, but it has also inspired many young women to pursue interests in STEM.

Walsh Jennings was on the 2000 U.S. Women's Indoor National Team that finished fourth at the Olympic Games in Sydney

Forty - four major law firms and 55 corporate legal departments are teaming up to boost diversity in the legal profession by drawing on two inspirational figures: the late Dan Rooney, beloved owner of the Pittsburgh Steelers, and Arabella Mansfield, a 19th century women's rights activist who became the first American woman admitted into the legal profession in 1869.

Again, it would be really easy to say, «Well, of course elite athletes have athletic bodies,» but seeing them here is enough to set aside the snark for a second and just marvel at the prowess and accomplishments of the women on America's gymnastics team.

No women sit on Audi's Management Board and its 14 person American executive team only has two women.

If that sounds like Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus, that's not surprising: Annis has teamed up with John Gray, the author of that vociferously debated 1992 bestseller, on a new book that explores «gender blind spots» in the workplace.

She has reorganized 80 percent of top management with a slew of hires; redirected the product teams to put as much weight on fashion and comfort as on function, and fomented what she called a «consumer - centric» company culture,» reports Women's Wear Daily.

Businesses with a woman on the executive team are more likely to have significantly higher valuations in their last funding round — 49 percent higher.

Last year Havas CEO David Jones fielded a team dominated by women, while consultant Mary Civiello created a roster based on executives who are excellent communicators.

Welter is a seasoned football veteran who has played the sport — both on women's and on men's teams — and coached it.

Born in Minnesota and now a resident of Vail, Colorado, Vonn was on Team USA for the Olympics in 2002, 2006 and 2010 when she became the first American woman to win a downhill Olympic gold medal.

«It could be that women are a net positive on a founding team from a diversity of thought and experience perspective — and the market doesn't recognize that yet.»

Karen Quintos, Dell's chief marketing officer and the sole woman on his leadership team (former or current), became the new chief customer officer.

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

On Monday, commissioner Roger Goodell sent a letter to the league's teams announcing that he hired three women to «help lead and shape the NFL's policies and programs relating to domestic violence and sexual assault.»

As forklifts beep and spin, teams of men and women on the first of three daily shifts are assembling dash mats, acoustical automobile components that insulate a vehicle's interior from engine noise.

In December, CEO Jack Dorsey said 80 percent of Square's workforce reports to five women on its leadership team, including Friar.

Team USA in Rio included four openly lesbian players on the women's basketball team: Delle Donne, Brittney Griner, Seimone Augustus, and Angel McCoughTeam USA in Rio included four openly lesbian players on the women's basketball team: Delle Donne, Brittney Griner, Seimone Augustus, and Angel McCoughteam: Delle Donne, Brittney Griner, Seimone Augustus, and Angel McCoughtry.

In 1972, when Title IX was signed into law, 90 % of women's college teams were coached by women, according to research from the Tucker Center for Research on Girls & Women in Swomen's college teams were coached by women, according to research from the Tucker Center for Research on Girls & Women in Swomen, according to research from the Tucker Center for Research on Girls & Women in SWomen in Sport.

The average salary for a college football head coach in the conference was $ 2.27 million and men's basketball coaches made $ 1.9 million on average, compared with $ 365,000 for the head coaches of BIG 10 women's basketball teams.

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«Of the five engineers on the team, three of us are women.

Managers must acknowledge that the men and women on their teams have commitments outside of work, and help all their team members find a balance that works.

Of course, it'll be a great recruitment tool for the company; the more data women enter about their reproductive cycles — and Glow gets personal: It asks about the sexual positions couples use while attempting to conceive, for example — the better Glow will work as Levchin, Huang, and the team apply machine - learning to the information to develop a deeper understanding of how to advise future users on how and when to conceive.

For those people in work situations who aren't having such a welcoming experience, Taylor says to get yourself a support network, whether you are the only woman on your team or an immigrant or a minority, etc..

The North Korean athletes aren't expected to medal in any events, but their interactions with the South Koreans (including on the joint women's ice hockey team) and other nations will be something the world will be watching.

Since launching Bioastra in 2008, she's grown her business from a one - woman operation to a team of 17 whiz - bang inventor - types; together, they've increased sales by 906 % in the last five years, landing the business at No. 82 on the 2017 PROFIT 500 ranking of Canada's Fastest - Growing Companies.

In order to succeed at this game, you have to have enough mind space available to think about the business, leading, innovation, your team — how could you possibly stay competitive if you take on the additional burden of thinking about how hard things are for you or what additional barriers you have to face because you're a woman or have darker skin?

She is one of two African - American women on the U.S. swim team (there has never been more than one at past Games) and hopes to use her success to bring more minorities into the sport.

Did you know that out of the current crop of «Unicorn» companies, less than 10 have a woman on the founding team, and only a small percentage include any women in their advisory boards?

Several women accusing former USA Gymnastics team and Michigan State University doctor Larry Nassar of abuse spoke in court on Tuesday before his sentencing.

When you took over, there was one woman on Cisco Canada's senior leadership team.

Skating a stellar routine in the women's free skate portion of the team competition, Nagasu began with a clean triple Axel and then went on to nail eight other triple jumps, including a triple flip and triple Salchow combination as she helped America claim bronze.

Contrary to expectations that the most diverse teams would perform best, the research showed that the more women on a team, the better its performance.

Meanwhile, Amber Yust, who was raised in Massachusetts, has used her experiences as a transgender woman to influence her work as an engineering manager on Google's privacy and security team.

Solo's team, the Seattle Reign FC of the National Women's Soccer League, announced that the goalie had been «granted a personal leave» before the team faced off against the Portland Thorns on Saturday night.

«Only a small portion of early - stage investment is going to women entrepreneurs, yet our data suggest that venture capital — funded businesses with women on the executive team perform better on multiple dimensions.

For example, we have low representation of women in technical roles, yet most of our software teams have at least one woman on them.

Businesses with a woman on the executive team are more likely to have higher valuations at both first and last funding (64 percent higher and 49 percent higher, respectively).

Nora Senior, president of the British Chambers of Commerce, said there was no need for «overbearing government regulation» and called on business to «step up to the task of nurturing the pipeline of women at middle management level on to executive teams».

In late 2017, a number of press reports pointed out that Galetti was the sole senior woman on the so - called «S - team» at the tech giant reporting directly to Bezos.

Of the 826 firms in CrunchBase that have substantial teams, women hold down 22 percent of the roles on the investment team at the associate, vice president and principal levels.