Sentences with phrase «than for women of»

Not exact matches

For more than two decades, Springboard's Millman has contended that we needed vast societal changes before we'd have masses of women building fast - growing companies, cracking the very top ranks of entrepreneurship.

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.

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.

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.

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.

But I would love to see some of our female leadership be a little more pointed about exactly what is going on here, rather than chiding Millennial women for supporting Sanders.

FOR many wine drinkers, the word chianti conjures up images of red and white checked tablecloths, men (and often women) with an abundance of chest hair, and those squat, cane - wrapped bottles of brick - red wine more suited to stripping paint than accompanyi

According to the Association of Reproductive Health Professionals, the benefits of using an IUD are «greater than any of the risks for women who haven't had children.»

More women than men are being appointed to the boards of Australia's top 200 companies for the first time on record.

Women account for a higher fraction of businesses without employees (40 percent) than those with employees (36 percent).

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.

Also, fair or not, women often continue to do more than their share of the heavy lifting when it comes to caring for others.

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.

«There is a lot of data that shows it's still far more challenging for women than men»

«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.»

Last year, women made up more than half of newly appointed HR executives, a role that's typically responsible for ensuring a company can acquire and develop the staff it needs to execute the larger business plan.

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.

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.

But the current reality is this: While the number of U.S. companies owned by women is increasing faster than those of other groups, those companies are responsible for just 6 percent of the country's employees and 4 percent of revenue, according to a 2012 report commissioned by American Express Open.

Getting dressed for work as a woman can be difficult; it takes longer to do than the guy who can throw on a suit, and most of the options available are missing the mark between flattering and «cute.»

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).

Indeed, previous studies have shown that women who adjust their level of assertiveness to match that of their negotiating partner during the process, rather than acting overly aggressive or passive throughout, will achieve better results for themselves.

Even controlling for grade - point average, men earned more than women who graduated with identical levels of academic achievement.

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.»

The IRS RMD rules can be a bit confusing, and failing to satisfy your annual RMD can be expensive, costing you an excise - tax penalty of up to 50 percent on the amount not distributed as required, warns Manisha Thakor, director of Wealth Strategies for Women at Buckingham and The BAM Alliance, a community of more than 140 independent registered investment advisors throughout the country.

And even setting that aside, nearly 70 percent of the time a man receives a higher initial salary offer than does a woman vying for the same job title at the same company.

Hired's research found that women with zero - to - two years of experience who took new jobs actually asked for 2 percent more compensation than men — and received 7 percent more.

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.

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 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.

For their part, Gino and her colleagues say they're interested to know when women's lists of priorities start to grow so much longer than those of their male counterparts.

The Center for American Women and Politics reports that women make up less than 20 percent of the U.S. CongWomen and Politics reports that women make up less than 20 percent of the U.S. Congwomen make up less than 20 percent of the U.S. Congress.

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.

More than 60 percent of Connected Fitness's users are women, who account for just 30 percent of Under Armour's apparel sales.

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.

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.

A recent report from the Pew Research Center, conducted before 2017's wave of sexual misconduct allegations, notes that employed women are five times more likely than employed men to say they've earned less for doing the same job.

«A lot of times, women are offered opportunities that they don't necessarily think they're ready for and they'll pass it up, rather than taking advantage of those opportunities and growing into them,» she says.

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.

This vague language makes it difficult for women to prove they were paid less than a male counterpart because of their gender and deters many from even filing a lawsuit.»

Our recent survey of more than 1,500 young U.S. business school students and graduates finds that both men and women count on having flexible careers that provide room for life outside of the office.

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 & ComWomen 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 & Comwomen, and management and consulting firm McKinsey & Company.

When details of her self - titled 2013 album were originally leaked earlier that year under the moniker Mrs. Carter, it was panned by some critics for its foreshadowed embrace of the artist's still - new identity as hip - hop mogul Sean «Jay - Z» Carter's wife rather than the trailblazing feminist icon who coined powerful female anthems like Irreplaceable, Single Ladies and Independent Women from her Destiny's Child days.

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.