Sentences with phrase «run by female»

Owned and run by a female of African - American descent, this company is dedicated to printing books by black, women and LGBT authors.

Affordable daytime and evening sports sessions are run by female instructors and to date feedback from participants has been overwhelmingly positive.

Linguist Claire Bowern of Yale University, meanwhile, points out that the societies covered by this study distribute power through the male line, and the opposite correlation may be found in societies run by females.

«We know that a tremendous number of households these days are being run by females, and many by grandmothers,» Lampitt says.

Not exact matches

A panel of three entrepreneurs discussed the relationship between purpose and profitability in greater depth: Pocket Sun, who, as founding partner of female - focused VC firm SoGal Ventures, has a purpose of «building an empire for millennial women to invest in startups»; Eileen Gittins, a serial entrepreneur who founded book self - publishing firm Blurb and now runs Bossygrl, a mobile app meant to introduce Gen Z girls to entrepreneurship by helping them launch micro-businesses; and Cathie Reid, co-founder and current digital advisor to Icon Group, an Australian cancer - care company with annual revenue of more than $ 1.5 billion.

The company, which is run by a mostly female executive team, is valued at more than $ 1 billion.

Alice seems a logical choice for Pivotal's first private - company investment, as it's run by two prominent female entrepreneurs — Elizabeth Gore and Carolyn Rodz — and was founded as a way to integrate more women into the startup ecosystem.

His solution was to promote two senior female execs to positions where they could influence what had formerly been a boardroom run exclusively by men.

By tapping female advisers, investors, and employees, the company hit half a million dollars in sales and ran out of its holiday inventory just six months after launch.

And venture is not alone; only 5 percent of the S&P 500 index has a female CEO; 3 percent of U.S. senior leadership teams are racially diverse; 8 percent of law firm equity partners are individuals of color; and 18 percent of the largest nonprofits ($ 50 million + budgets) are run by women, despite an overwhelmingly (75 percent) female employee base.

Research by the Guardian conducted this year showed there were more men called John running FTSE 100 companies than all the female bosses combined.

«In just the last 48 hours, I've spoken to a female tech executive who was grabbed by a male C.E.O. at a large event and another female executive who was asked to interview at a venture fund because they «feel like they need to hire a woman,»» said Dick Costolo, the former chief of Twitter, who now runs the fitness start - up Chorus.

The female - favoring trend the Journal identified stems from research suggesting that companies run by women simply do better.

But the benefits of investing in female - led financial endeavors go even further than the Journal has it: Hedge funds run by women tend to outperform other hedge funds.

Sibyl is also the cofounder of Black Female Founders and the President of DC Web Women (DCWW), one of the longest - running tech nonprofits for women in D.C, which supports and advocates for women and girls in technology by providing a community in which they can develop and promote their leadership, technical and professional skills.

The two first female attorneys - general in BC history were appointed, Our 125,000 + civil service, finance ministry and largest Crown corporation were run by women, and more than a third of our government board appointees were women.

The Vatican which is run by a bunch of good old boys club and females will never be treated equal much like the Muslims Sharia law.

The outstanding example, of course, is the Chinese government's long - running «one - child policy,» replete with forced abortions, public trackings of menstrual cycles, family flight, increased female infanticide, sterilization, and other assaults too numerous even to begin cataloguing here — in fact, so numerous that they are now widely, if often grudgingly, acknowledged as wrongs even by international human - rights bureaucracies.

Despite a surge of interest in running for office by female candidates, the November elections may not produce a similar surge in the number of women in Congress.

The week is part of the wider Inspiring Women campaign, run by charity the Education and Employers Taskforce which already has 12,650 female volunteers willing to go into state schools to talk with pupils.

The incumbent female district leader, Alicia Barksdale, is running for reelection in the same district, and had been joined by Vernon Williams for male district leader, but he was knocked off the ballot, according to Barksdale.

In West Harlem, Campusano is running for female leader for Assembly District 70, Part D, alongside Clark, an incumbent who was previously a political ally of Wright, but is not being supported by Wright now.

This fall, in races around the city, several qualified female candidates ran in hotly - contested Democratic primaries for open seats being left by term - limited City Council members, while others attempted to unseat incumbents seeking reelection.

It is certainly not an all male - club as the help - line in the daytime is run by a couple of dedicated women and the charity has a number of female directors including a Conservative councillor (Cllr Roz Willis — North Somerset).

Days later, he prematurely named former Hewlett - Packard chief executive Carly Fiorina as his running mate, hoping it would woo some of the female voters turned off by Trump's brash rhetoric.

Since her release from prison in 1990, Durant has been working for Women In Prison, a support group run by ex-offenders for female prisoners.

And they saw the alpha male or his beta sidekick break up 69 different scuffles by running into the fray or getting up in the face of the warring parties, which were sometimes males but often females.

The overall pattern of the dance is two adjacent ovals connected by a straight line called a waggle run, during which a female bee swings her abdomen back and forth like a pendulum, 13 to 15 times a minute.

They have shown that the females are running the show, driving males to leave by selectively mating with immigrants from outside the pack (Nature, DOI: 10.1038 / nature06040).

I ran a 401H and a GI MAP side - by - side on a female, let's see about two weeks ago, and the GI MAP showed up with seven infections including two parasites and the 401H showed up with nothing.

Finally, if you want to understand more about how where you are at in your menstrual cycle changes the way that you feel and perform during exercise, I recommend reading book «Running for Women» by author Jason Karp, who is also interviewed in this Endurance Planet episode on female athlete fueling.

If you've been buying TPDC for a while then it's worth nothing that their sizing has recently changed to run a little smaller, as I had confirmed by previously - mentioned TPDC long - time stockist Claudia at Deadly Is The Female, so make sure to check the size charts for new purchases.

There are networks of adult dating sites run by a few operators that have virtually no female members.

Run entirely by a team of 20 women, the website is free for female subscribers, men pay for subscription packages starting at Rs. 700.

I am hispanic female who by trade is a nurse i enjoy the outdoors running jogging walkinging hiking

Run entirely by a team of 20 women, the website is free for female subscribers.

If I am out with a platonic female friend and she has a guy she is not interested in at all talking her ear off she just throws me a sign and I just run interference and «rescue» her by pulling her away to dance or something.

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Like Ashley Madison, the dating site provides a place where married people can cheat, but one whose platform is run by a «100 % female team», its tagline reading: «The first extramarital dating site made by women».

The New Adventures of Old Christine is a comedy about a 35 - year - old divorced mom (Julia Louis - Dreyfus, Seinfeld), who runs a 30 - minute female - only gym with Here's a list of my favorite shows of the year, followed by other highlights, a recap of the year and a brief word on each show.

She is currently in production playing the female lead opposite Joseph Gordon - Levitt in Oliver Stone's Snowden, the real - life story of the Edward Snowden, the 28 year - old hacker - turned - whistleblower who leaked classified information from the NSA about surveillance programs run by the U.S.

That rather sad fact, which is not uncommon, is one of the reasons that Johnson and Koch are proud that a festival run primarily by women regularly includes films with women directors — seven this year, including «Toni Erdmann» — along with features that focus on female characters such as «Jackie,» Kelly Reinhardt's «Certain Women» and Kelly Fremon Craig's coming - of - age comedy «The Edge of Seventeen.»

The powerful film depicts the abuse she endured as a pre-pubescent 13 - year - old at the hands of her male running coach, abetted by her female riding teacher.

Nicole Kidman continued her run of awards season success when she beat her co-stars Laura Dern and Reese Witherspoon, along with «Feud: Bette and Joan» stars Jessice Lange and Susan Sarandon to pick up Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a TV Movie or Limited Series, while her «Big Little Lies» on - screen husband, Alexander Skarsgard took the award in the male category.

Some other notable films from female directors include the Telluride breakout «Lady Bird» by Greta Gerwig, a semi-autobiographical coming - of - age movie about women and female familial relationships; Brie Larson's magical realist directorial debut «Unicorn Store»; and «Battle of the Sexes,» a chronicling of the run - up to the landmark 1973 tennis match between Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs, directed by Valerie Faris and her husband, Jonathan Dayton.

While Barbera has broken an 11 - year run of male Venice jury heads by appointing Annette Bening as this year's president, the number of female film - makers at this year's festival is less impressive, with just one — the Chinese director Vivian Qu — appearing in competition.

This year gave us, not only spectacular debuts from a wide range of exceptional new voices (Columbus, Get Out, Lady Bird), but also A-game late - career home runs by Frederick Wiseman, Steven Spielberg, Agnès Varda, Terence Davies, and (I promise I'm not trolling) Terrence Malick; a Spike Lee Netflix show that revisits and revises She's Got ta Have It, a movie from his own upstart era, and a Sofia Coppola movie — The Beguiled — that revises an earlier era of female desire at the movies; Wonder Woman, the first -LRB-!)

My final gripe (Bryce Dallas Howard's miraculous skill when running in heels aside, an observation made by four of my female friends) is a real lack of imagination realised in the movie's few genetically engineered beasties.

Run over by animals that are driving a car, a cranky, elderly female tourist (voice by Elisa Gabrielli) also exchanges brutal punches and martial arts moves with Alex on several occasions.

Adapted from the autobiography of the woman who ran one of the highest - end floating poker games in the country, «Molly's» is unfailingly intelligent and a good, deep study of a clever female beating an overwhelmingly male game — until she doesn't, then sabotages herself by clinging to an ethical chimera that the movie doesn't convince us is worth the cost.