Sentences with phrase «women are in the running»

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Golden Seeds, a group of mostly ex-Wall Street women, has been providing early funding to female - run companies since 2005; Cindy Padnos's Illuminate Ventures was formed in 2009.

While prosecutions are rare, women who are hospitalized for abortion complications frequently face criminal and civil action, and even run the risk of spending up to three years in jail.

The New York City - based «Academy» Urbaniak runs is aimed at teaching women how to communicate in influential and powerful ways, and get more of what they want in all kinds of relationships, from the office boardroom to the bedroom.

But Sinzdak said she is confident women will continue to smash electoral records — both in the Senate and beyond — noting that a record of women have expressed interest in running for office this cycle.

Venture capital firms, in particular, have long been overwhelmingly averse to funding female - run enterprises, «and I don't see a trend line for any significant change,» added Trish Costello, CEO and founder of Portfolia, a platform designed to help women invest in entrepreneurial enterprises.

That's one reason why City Girl Coffee Company, run by Alyza Bohbot, gets its beans from women - run farms and cooperatives and donates 5 % of its profits to organizations that support women in the coffee industry.

In an industry in which 89 % of partner - level investors are men, a venture capital firm run by three women is rarIn an industry in which 89 % of partner - level investors are men, a venture capital firm run by three women is rarin which 89 % of partner - level investors are men, a venture capital firm run by three women is rare.

The yoga and running gear maker is recalling a women's top that it sold for six years beginning in 2008 due to a hazard tied to the top's elastic draw cord.

Moreover, the rate of growth in the fraction of non-employers (28.2 percent) run by women has been higher than the rate of increase in their share of non-employers (23 percent) over the past five years.

Only 19 % of the companies in Y - Combinator are run by women, which reflects the small number of women who apply.

The event, called Catalyst Canada Honours, is run by Catalyst — a nonprofit organization that is focused on expanding opportunities for women in business — and the group has been researching woman at work since its inception in 1962.

Marcelo pointed out that funds that invest specifically in women, often run by women investors, are popping up across the country.

Such was the case, minus the trouble, when we chatted on - set recently with the spunky real estate mogul about «running a business as a woman in a man's world.»

There was a case recently about a woman in Quebec who was injured by a drone while she was doing a run.

By contrast, women who raise A rounds in the Bay Area, «tend to have more technical backgrounds and many are serial entrepreneurs who have raised venture capital while running other companies.»

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Conway was the first woman in U.S. history to run a winning presidential campaign.

HBF has been a leader in the corporate wellness space with its Run for a Reason event, and it is currently sponsoring Ms Dawson and a team of three other women in their attempt to complete a 1,000 - kilometre cycle race.

Bryan Hopkins, a musical artist, told CNN that after he watched two men in front of him and two women behind him fall to the ground after being hit by bullets, he grabbed the hands of two women next to him and started running.

Reshma Saujani is a former hedge fund lawyer, New York City deputy public advocate and the first Indian - American woman to run for Congress (she lost a primary race in 2010).

We need women in leadership roles for many different reasons, but they shouldn't be held back from running the show in the workplace because they can not afford to have someone run the show at home.

«I don't think I'm a woman when starting a business or running a team,» says Pulatkonak, in Turkey, «unless someone makes me feel like a woman in the workplace.»

Another reason is that women tend to be more conservative in running their businesses, so you see generally stronger balance sheets with more personal equity and less debt than in businesses owned by men.

In what appears to be one recent example, photojournalist Jim MacMillan happened to be walking through downtown Philadelphia shortly after a woman was run over by a Duck Boat (an amphibious vehicle that takes tourists around the harbor).

I mean, I just find that the women candidates that we have running right now — and they are diverse in geography, in race, in profession, in life experience — are the bridges.

Along with working at Goldman Sachs and running her startup, she was the co-head of the Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital Club and a member of the Darden Capital Management Club, Retail and Luxury Goods Club, and the Graduate Women in Business.

We'll have to make our own voices as viewers are heard and let those running the shows know we want women in those late - night host spots.

More than half of small businesses in the U.S. are owned and run by women, and those ventures have disproportionately adopted cloud services like email marketing, SEO & SEM services and online billing and bookkeeping services.

Women are not dominating late - night television for the same reason they're not running most corporations or countries: Women in power make people nervous.

And there are dozens of other women in the business who would have given Kimmel, Colbert, Meyers and Noah a run for their money, even in heels.

For example, in Chile, women are largely expected to take care of their children and parents, making it much harder for women to take an active role in running a business, the report notes.

Although women have historically run behind men in business, they're upbeat about women's future as owners or workers, according to a survey released last week by Bank of America.

Very few women are CEOs of major corporations, or in the C - level suite of executives running corporate America, Business Insider's Rachel Gillett reported.

Median Salary: $ 42,250 There's no question that running into a burning building is stressful, and yet these men and women choose to do it whenever is necessary — be it 3 in the morning or Christmas Day.

In all parts of the world, women entrepreneurs are more likely to run businesses that work directly with the consumer, like retail businesses, the GEM data shows.

There are just two women of color on the list: Geisha Williams, the Latina who runs PG&E and Indra Nooyi, the Indian American (she would be counted in the Asian category on an EEO - 1 Report) CEO at PepsiCo.

It's likely, however, that Buffett would have disagreed with Fox's efforts to reportedly sweep the allegations under the rug, silencing women who leveled accusations against O'Reilly as well as former Fox chairman Roger Ailes with settlement payments that ran in the millions of dollars.

But I was just amazed by how everyone, young and old wanted to be involved... and was so deeply enriched and touched by the experience and the laughter and the love I experienced from the people I met and how women would in particular open their hearts to me and tell me the stories of where they've come from, particularly because I have the language and was coming there as a woman and just how touched they were that I was there as a woman from England who's learned the language and who's an artist and running this project and come all the way to see them so they didn't feel forgotten I think that was pretty much what they felt... that their stories were being heard so they don't feel forgotten knowing the tents would be around the world.

It's lunchtime at BlissDom, a convention in Mississauga, Ont., last October for «mommy bloggers»: women (and, indeed, a few men) who run websites devoted to parenting.

To become an FBI Special Agent, candidates must be between the ages of 23 and 37 and successfully complete a battery of physical tests including a timed 300 - meter sprint (women must run it in less than 65 seconds to qualify; men, 55 seconds) and pushups (women must do at least 14; men, 30).

The number of women running Fortune 500 companies fell in 2015 — from 26 to 23 — and alas, we're not optimistic the count will climb dramatically in 2016.

For those of you too swamped to watch the whole thing right now, the money line from Sun is this: «I happen to be in a world that's run by men, and yet Poshmark is all about women.

In this case, Lululemon has taken the category of women's athletic apparel — which has been an afterthought for women's fashion brands like La Senza and Bebe, and an «also - ran» side of the business at Nike and Adidas — married it to mainstream casual and turned it into a high - performing category all its own.

Zakin and Weisberg discussed how they benefit from jointly running their newsletter TheSkimm, which they founded in 2012, at Fortune «s Most Powerful Women Next Gen Summit Tuesday in Laguna Niguel, California.

The first step in our M.O.M. formula was to run ads on blog posts about women's health.

Here are some of the most exciting women - run companies to keep an eye on in the coming year.

Aspect has since closed on a $ 150 million fund and gained some notoriety for being one of an increasing number of venture firms, run by women, willing to look at women entrepreneurs and women - run companies in a new way.

It's still early, but of the first class of eight investments made two years ago, all are still in business; six of them are profitable (and five of the eight are run by women).

There's a solution I like, and it comes courtesy of Hollywood — specifically, from actress - writer - producer Mindy Kaling, whose impressive success as a young woman of colour in a town run by old white men routinely spurs people to ask where she gets her confidence.

In December 2014, TomboyX applied to Boulder - based MergeLane, an accelerator for women - run businesses, and was accepted into its first cohort.