Sentences with phrase «per cent women»

Our current board is roughly 20 to 30 per cent women.

«Aecon has set an objective to have no less than 25 per cent women on its board by 2017,» says Martina Doyle, corporate counsel with Aecon.

The groups hiring practices requiring women and racialized minorities to be shortlisted for positions have resulted in the group in North America comprised of 71 per cent women and 21 per cent racialized minorities.

«There was a priority list,» he says, «which associations were supposed to pick from, that had 50 per cent women, 10 per cent ethnic minorities.

«The National Assembly should also legislate 30 per cent youth of under 40 years of age and 30 per cent women into all organs of political parties and into all institutions of governments.

Not exact matches

The company insisted it had not changed the specifications for the clothing, but is warning of a shortage of the extraordinarily popular clothing items, which make up about 17 per cent of all women's pants and crop pants in its stores.

This year's awards are open to all Australian business women that meet the entry criteria in the following categories: * Westpac Group Business Owner Award (owners with a 50 per cent share or more in a business, with responsibility for key management decision making); * Australian Government Private and Corporate Sector Award (employees in the private and corporate sectors, or owners with less than a 50 per cent share of a business); * Hudson Community and Government Award (employees of government departments, statutory bodies and not - for - profit organisations); * Panasonic Young Business Women's Award (women aged 30 years and under, with any of the above critewomen that meet the entry criteria in the following categories: * Westpac Group Business Owner Award (owners with a 50 per cent share or more in a business, with responsibility for key management decision making); * Australian Government Private and Corporate Sector Award (employees in the private and corporate sectors, or owners with less than a 50 per cent share of a business); * Hudson Community and Government Award (employees of government departments, statutory bodies and not - for - profit organisations); * Panasonic Young Business Women's Award (women aged 30 years and under, with any of the above criteWomen's Award (women aged 30 years and under, with any of the above critewomen aged 30 years and under, with any of the above criteria).

The author of this study, Joni Hersch, finds that after controlling for other factors that determine wages, women employed in jobs with an average probability of being sexual harassed are paid a compensating differential of 25 cents per hour relative to women employed in jobs with no risk of sexual harassment.

Fifty - nine per cent of respondents said companies should be under no external pressure to appoint women to their boards, while 37 % said that boards should appoint more women but without being subject to specific quotas.

In the private sector, Canadian women working full time are earning hourly wages that are 80 per cent of what men earn.

But the analysis says raising the work - force participation rate of women by 4.5 percentage points by 2032 would lift Canada's potential growth to about 1.9 per cent.

Sandberg is among the 14 per cent of women who hold executive officer positions and the 16 per cent of women who hold board of director seats, according to Catalyst.org.

Women of colour, she writes, hold just 4 per cent of top corporate jobs and 3 per cent of board seats.

There, about 85 per cent of men's clothing and about 95 per cent of women's dresses and about 95 per cent of furs and almost the whole wearing - apparel business are in Jewish hands with the interest of New York Jews predominating.

WOMEN make up 49.5 per cent of the working population in the City of Perth, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics» Working Population Community Profile.

WOMEN in executive management roles earning more than $ 65,000 a year find work 25 per cent faster than their male counterparts on similar salaries according to a recent Morgan & Banks survey.

The party expects to own the constituencies that will rally to the progressive theme: specifically women and youth; and, overall, the majority of the 60 per cent who bothered to vote in the last election.

«In Canada for instance, 99 per cent of our factory workers are Chinese women sewers.

These programs have set us apart from more traditional business organizations, and have led to a surge in new Members under the age of 35 — 60 per cent of which have been women.»

SDM's market share growth in 2012 in cosmetics was 46.8 per cent — a number that may not be so surprising when put beside another statistic: 70 per cent of SDM's customers are women.

-- The median annual wage for women has steadily increased by 28 per cent from 1976 to 2010 as more women entered the workforce

However, the median annual wage for women has steadily increased by 28 per cent from 1976 to 2010 as more women entered the workforce.

Over 53 per cent of men and 38 of women aged 65 or older were working in some form in 2015 — considerably more than were doing so in 1995

Women to Make Up 40 Per Cent of Provincial Boards and Agencies by 2019 Link to Original Article: https://news.ontario.ca/opo/en/2016/06/ontario-sets-gender-diversity-targets.html by: Office of the Premier Today, Premier Kathleen Wynne announced new gender diversity targets to ensure more women have the opportunity to reach top leadership positions at provincial agencies and other government organizatWomen to Make Up 40 Per Cent of Provincial Boards and Agencies by 2019 Link to Original Article: https://news.ontario.ca/opo/en/2016/06/ontario-sets-gender-diversity-targets.html by: Office of the Premier Today, Premier Kathleen Wynne announced new gender diversity targets to ensure more women have the opportunity to reach top leadership positions at provincial agencies and other government organizatwomen have the opportunity to reach top leadership positions at provincial agencies and other government organizations.

A C.D. Howe Institute study shows that of all prime working - age workers in part - time positions, 50 per cent of men and 33 per cent of women would prefer full - time employment.

Needless to say, RBC is proud to be the # 1 bank for women entrepreneurs in Canada, with 22 per cent market share.

Food Banks Canada's HungerCount study reported that more than 860,000 men, women and children are helped by food banks each month, a 28 per cent increase since the 2008 economic downturn.

In fact, one - in - five men (19 %) say they have an overall positive view of the White House's performance, more than double the number of women saying the same — just eight per cent.

For example, 62 per cent of liberal Protestants believe that a married woman who wants no more children should have the right to an abortion, whereas only 46 per cent of the moderates, and 28 per cent of conservatives, agree.

The survey suggested Catholics are becoming more liberal than ever, with 61 per cent saying they thought women should be allowed to terminate an unwanted pregnancy.

She also says that a random survey of women in Los Angeles in 1986 found that sixty - two per cent had been sexually abused as children.20 The churches have to challenge this abuse and the culture that underlies it.

The survey found that 35 per cent of men polled said they hadn't got married because they hadn't met the right person compared to only 29 per cent of women.

«A recent study has shown that 37 per cent of women aged 18 to 34 who attend Mass weekly and have been to confession within the past year completely accept the Church's teaching on family planning»

A recent study, «What Catholic Women Think About Faith, Conscience, and Contraception» (see whatcatholicwomenthink.com), has shown that 37 per cent of women aged 18 to 34 who attend Mass weekly and have been to confession within the past year completely accept the Church's teaching on family planWomen Think About Faith, Conscience, and Contraception» (see whatcatholicwomenthink.com), has shown that 37 per cent of women aged 18 to 34 who attend Mass weekly and have been to confession within the past year completely accept the Church's teaching on family planwomen aged 18 to 34 who attend Mass weekly and have been to confession within the past year completely accept the Church's teaching on family planning.

At least 10 per cent of women experience some degree of anxiety or depression after giving birth but men also can experience the baby blues.

According to the 2015 survey conducted by Martin Saunders for his article in this magazine, 75 per cent of Christian men and 20 per cent of Christian women view porn on an ongoing basis.

Yet the basic social and cultural patterns that today condemn men and women to death, in accordance with the wishes of 65 per cent of the American public, remain in some ways remarkably unchanged from ancient times.

In reality, only 0.2 per cent of all American women over 50 have annual incomes above $ 75,000; almost 40 per cent survive on less than $ 5,000 per year.

She told the Mail on Sunday: «Instead of listening to lobby groups, the BMA should be listening to British women, 70 per cent of whom want the abortion time limit to be lowered from the current 24 weeks limit - one of the highest in the Western world.»

Indeed, «prime - time women are unrealistically upscale»: 26 per cent are millionaires, 68 per cent are middle class and only 5 per cent are working class.

With around 30 per cent of the women not owning a front door key, homelessness has practical repercussions.

Men and women in their 50s, 60s and 70s with high cholesterol were 16 per cent more likely to be alive at the end of the 14 - year study if they were married rather than single.

The British Crime Survey found that only 10 per cent of male victims of domestic violence had told the police, compared with 29 per cent of women».

Although women are now ordained to all three orders within the Church of England (deacon, priest and bishop), fewer than a quarter of those seeking ordination under the age of 30 are female and fewer than two per cent of leaders of larger Anglican churches are female.

Eleven per cent of British women are taking antidepressant medication daily.

Her work also indicated that rape rates are rising: in every age group the rape rates are significantly higher than for the same age group in any earlier period (e.g., for women under 20, the rape rate increased from 11 per cent in 1931 to 36 per cent in 1976).

In Diane Russell's study of rape, 44 per cent of the women interviewed had been subjected to rape or attempted rape, and contrary to the prevalent stereotype, strangers accounted for only 11 per cent of the perpetrators.

Age UK's study also revealed 22 per cent of men and nearly one in three women of retirement age suffer with depression.

If the figures for men and women are true (6 and 4 per cent respectively) then the actual figure overall, if men and women are roughly equal in thepopulation, will be 5 per cent.

«Although no one can be sure, it is thought that about 10 per cent of the population (6 per cent of men and 4 per cent of women) are homosexual.»