Previous studies have found that men may be more vulnerable than women to social and emotional isolation after bereavement; thus, social bonds may be more beneficial for men
than for women in preventing depression following the loss of a spouse (Ferraro et al., 1984; Umberson et al., 1992).
The study reported that women's well being two years out from being treated for the disease was overall only modestly lower
than for women in general.
Nonetheless, the rate of onset of T2DM is greater for men
than for women in different ethnic groups (209) at lower BMI levels.
Of course, in some cases pregnancy might be a bit more difficult for midlife women
than for women in their twenties.
Not exact matches
The reason
women aren't getting promoted from the bottom ranks isn't that
women aren't negotiating —
in fact,
women negotiate
for promotions and raises more often
than men do.
As much as recent efforts to encourage
women in STEM education and STEM jobs have helped move the needle a bit, the culture of science has often made life
for women scientists harder
than it already is — excluding them from clubby publishing and peer review networks and sometimes outright snubbing their achievements.
Once at a table, the
women wait until their sons or husbands — all of whom have been imprisoned
for more
than a decade and have over a decade to go — come out to spend a morning
in the gloomy room to talk and eat food from the vending machines.
As she worked at a startup
in 2015, she raised more
than $ 9,000 through Indiegogo
for an avocado - and - oil deep conditioner
for black
women with frizzy or unruly curls.
A 2015 study found that
women who applied
for professorships
in STEM areas (excluding economics) were more likely to be hired
than similarly qualified male candidates.
Félix starred
in more
than 47 movies and defied stereotypical roles
for women in film.
A serial entrepreneur — she owns four restaurants and has founded two companies
in addition to Thinx — Agrawal says that the danger of male investors asking the
women in their lives
for advice is that, more often
than not, those
women are not their target customers.
For more
than five years, researchers have been able to demonstrate that
women - led tech businesses, though rare
in the industry, tend to outperform their male - led competitors.
Add those reasons to the long, frequently cited list of why
women lose confidence
in their careers: They make, on average, $ 8,000 less per year
than their male counterparts; they aren't afforded the same opportunities
for advancement; they're penalized
for having kids.
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.
But she's keen to emphasize that innovation is about more
than just technology, citing the example of a local female entrepreneur
in the construction industry who couldn't find workboots
for women and started a company to manufacture them.
Companies are becoming increasingly more committed to gender diversity once studies began exposing the uncomfortable truth: «
Women remain underrepresented at every level
in corporate America, despite earning more college degrees
than men
for thirty years and counting,» states the report.
That $ 38 difference
in resale prices is remarkable considering TiqIQ says the smallest difference
in price between the men's and
women's finals was
in 2012, when the average ticket price
for the men's final was $ 150 more
than for the
women's final.
Women - owned businesses account
for a greater share of this country's employment and payrolls
than they did
in 2007, but the numbers remain small.
It's more reminiscent of a child being noisy
in a classroom
than of a terrifying, dangerous, and life - altering experience
for a
woman.
The rate of
women who had their first child between 40 and 44 has more
than doubled
in the past 20 years, according to the Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention.
(
Women from service - based companies with greater
than $ 1 million
in gross annual sales are also eligible
for membership).
«KPCB discriminates against [Ellen Pao] and other
women by failing to promote them comparably to men, by compensating them less
than men through lower salary, bonus and carried interest, by restricting the number of investments that
women are allowed to make as compared to men, by failing to include junior
women from meetings and discussions, by failing to provide equivalent sponsorship of
women as of men, by failing to include junior
women comparably to junior men
in the interview process, and by failing to provide opportunities
for visibility and success inside and outside the firm
for women as compared to men.»
It's been more
than two years since Facebook and others
in tech committed to hiring more
women and underrepresented people of color, and so far, there is very little to show
for it.
This is especially important
for female entrepreneurs, as
women live on average five years longer
than men and can have many more years
in retirement to fund.
Although the Institute
for Family Studies reports that more husbands
than wives admit to being unfaithful, according to The Cut, psychoanalyst and writer Esther Perel cites an increase of 40 %
in unfaithful
women since 1990, while men's statistics have stayed about the same.
Spots
for the Shake Weight have been viewed more
than a million times on YouTube, thanks largely to the suggestive way that
women in the infomercial hold — and shake — the weight.
Women have less time
for on - the - job labor because they spend more time doing housework
than their male counterparts — so they miss out when they're working
in fields that reward long hours, based on a new National Bureau
for Economic Research study.
It's time
for any organization with more
than a perfunctory interest
in gender parity to acknowledge the biases — often unconscious — that might be keeping qualified
women from positions that ultimately go to men.
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 crite
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 crite
Women's Award (
women aged 30 years and under, with any of the above crite
women aged 30 years and under, with any of the above criteria).
John St.'s first creative work
for Shoppers was a print ad
in Women of Influence earlier this month — it featured a coffee cup marked with a
woman's lipstick and declared, «Some marks you leave are more permanent
than others.»
While many viewers complain about NBC's tape - delay tradition, the network maintains that the practice is better
for ratings as NBC claims female viewers (who actually make up the bulk of the Olympics» audience) watch sports differently
than men do, with
women investing more
in coverage showing athletes» journeys to the games
than in the actual results.
Here are six very important reasons why I think
women make better entrepreneurs
than men (and these characteristics also make
women better equipped
for doing business
in the lead to 2020):
In 2011, head coaches for all women's teams in the BIG 10 conference made less than a third of what the men's coaches pulled in, $ 149,000 compared with $ 490,000, according to research from Tucke
In 2011, head coaches
for all
women's teams
in the BIG 10 conference made less than a third of what the men's coaches pulled in, $ 149,000 compared with $ 490,000, according to research from Tucke
in the BIG 10 conference made less
than a third of what the men's coaches pulled
in, $ 149,000 compared with $ 490,000, according to research from Tucke
in, $ 149,000 compared with $ 490,000, according to research from Tucker.
With more
than 40 years of experience helping restore men and
women behind bars, Prison Fellowship advocates
for federal and state criminal justice reforms that transform those responsible
for crime, validate victims, and encourage communities to play a role
in creating a safe, redemptive, and just society.
The same is true
for women with higher incomes: 30 percent of
women with family incomes of $ 100,000 or more report they've earned less
than a man who was doing comparable work, Pew notes, compared with roughly one -
in - five
women with lower incomes.
The CEPR researchers add that prime - age employment
for men is now 3 percentage points lower
than it was
in December 2007, while the rate
for women is 2.2 percentage points below where it was.
According to an evaluation by Hired, female candidates
in the field are offered an average of four percent less
than their male counterparts, and «63 percent of the time
women receive lower salary offers
than men
for the same job at the same company.»
In a number of instances
women were able to apply
for jobs only if they had higher qualifications
than their male counterparts.
Back
in 2011, Reuters reported that the 1,700 - square - foot brick house had little activity other
than «a
woman who steps outside
for smoke breaks.»
Economists treat parental leave, both
for women and men, as a simple cost - benefit problem:
in theory, at least, if a
woman's wage is greater
than the cost of replacing her
in the home, then she should spend her time working and hire someone else to care
for her children.
In popular, high - paying industries like tech,
women are offered lower starting salaries
than their male counterparts
for the same job at the same company 63 percent of the time.
At Lever, one employee posted on LinkedIn about the need
for women in tech sales which garnered more
than 12,000 views and inspired the company to organize a San Francisco meetup.
The social media giant also said it would be providing digital skills training
for more
than 15,000
women in France, following on from similar drives
in the U.K. and Italy.
The fact that
women were more likely
than men to engage
in such work is the reason
for their lower threshold.
«
Women can now make potentially life - defining decisions about how to proactively plan
for the family they want to build and be more efficient
in overcoming fertility difficulties they are experiencing using better, more personal, information
than age,» founder Piraye Beim shared earlier this year
in TechCrunch.
That's according to the
Women in the Workplace 2016 survey of 132 companies, with more than 4.6 million employees, by Lean In, an organization founded by Sandberg to serve as a community and education platform for professional women, and management and consulting firm McKinsey & Com
Women in the Workplace 2016 survey of 132 companies, with more than 4.6 million employees, by Lean In, an organization founded by Sandberg to serve as a community and education platform for professional women, and management and consulting firm McKinsey & Compan
in the Workplace 2016 survey of 132 companies, with more
than 4.6 million employees, by Lean
In, an organization founded by Sandberg to serve as a community and education platform for professional women, and management and consulting firm McKinsey & Compan
In, an organization founded by Sandberg to serve as a community and education platform
for professional
women, and management and consulting firm McKinsey & Com
women, and management and consulting firm McKinsey & Company.
For instance,
women in the U.S. spend 150 % more time on housework
than men do, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data, which the study notes.
«
Women saved more
than $ 1.4 billion
in out - of - pocket costs
for birth control
in 2013 alone,» the senators wrote on May 25,
in a letter to Mulvaney.
Back
in the day, companies would justify paying
women less
than men because, among other reasons, men were seen as breadwinner providers responsible
for an entire household.
In the survey, women who were paid more than average for their job were 18 percent more likely to think they are underpaid than men in the same pay bracke
In the survey,
women who were paid more
than average
for their job were 18 percent more likely to think they are underpaid
than men
in the same pay bracke
in the same pay bracket.