Sentences with phrase «women at our firm»

«I'm dedicated to increasing the number of black women at the firm because I believe in equity,» she says.

I have been among a handful of women at our firm for nine years!

And perhaps more women at firms will likewise take charge of their destinies rather than waiting for their law firms to become more enlightened.

One measure of firmwide support for women at any firm is the presence of women lawyers in positions of leadership.

We are deeply committed to attracting, retaining and advancing women at the firm.

Davis Wright Tremaine Seattle, WA Opportunity knocks for women at this firm, where they're 60 % of new equity partners.

At that time, the law firm didn't have a maternity policy, so she asked to have one developed and became the first woman at the firm to go on a maternity leave.

Not exact matches

Only 2 % of venture funding went to female founders in 2017, and just 8 % of partners at the top venture capital firms are women.

That's partly because 94 percent of investing partners at venture firms are male and, female entrepreneurs say, less likely to understand the potential of a business that specifically targets women as customers.

«Silencing our stories deprives customers and potential investors from the knowledge that our horrific experiences are part of a widespread problem at Uber,» according to the letter, which was obtained by Bloomberg News from the New York law firm representing the women, Wigdor LLP.

Currently, about 7 % of partners at top VC firms are women, according to an analysis by TechCrunch.

Alison Kitchen will become the first woman in Australia to chair a big four professional services firm when she takes on the role at KPMG Australia later this year.

One of a handful of women to be a general partner at a Silicon Valley venture capital firm, Barr uses her influence to bolster emerging Canadian tech firms.

Only 2 % of venture funding went to female founders, and just 8 % of partners at the top venture capital firms are women.

In my 2007 book about Lazard, I tell the story of Mina Gerowin, the first woman banker at Lazard and her arrival at the firm in 1980, fresh from Harvard Business School, where she was a Baker Scholar.

The number of women partners at the firm is one of the highest within the venture capital arena and the firm has actively supported women in all respects.

Most of them were disadvantaged women whom OFC hired to sew surgical gowns at Enayah (its joint venture with Kimberly - Clark (KMB) and another Saudi firm).

At her women - dominated public - relations firm, Environics Communications, Taylor Ferri says the temperature is unpredictable.

Workers at companies with higher levels of openness have higher rates of job satisfaction and are less likely to quit; more women also apply to such firms because they feel less pressure to negotiate.

So while a firm like NEA may not have a woman at the table when the big decisions are being made, there is an argument that it can afford the infrastructure needed to stem bad behavior, both at its portfolio companies and within its own ranks.

Prior to joining Goldman Sachs, she was an attorney at Shearman & Sterling LLP and founded the firm's women's network (WISER) and served on its diversity committee.

About two years ago, the attorney at law firm Cooley took over as chair of the Partnership Nominating Committee, and the numbers weren't inspiring when it came to women's progress.

The book explores the role of gender in the tech industry — at startups and venture capital firms — and the interaction between men and women in the two.

Women account for only 22 percent of accredited angel investors and 6 percent of partners at venture capital firms.

Hadley Mullin, a partner at private equity firm TSG Consumer Partners, says the gender imbalance in the investment community does not make sense — especially at firms that invest in consumer brands, as women drive household spending.

The club Lee and her peers belong to is a small one: fewer than 6 % of all decision - markers at U.S. venture capital firms were women last year, according to a Fortune analysis.

For the first time in the report's history, the firm found that more than half of new board members at S&P 500 companies (56 percent) were women and / or minorities.

That was a big deal, legally speaking, because gender stereotyping was key to one of the biggest Supreme Court cases upholding federal anti-discrimination laws, involving a woman's inability to make partner at the former accounting firm Price Waterhouse.

One of the transportation firm's vehicles struck a woman in Tempe late Sunday night, and she died of her injuries at a hospital, the Tempe Police Department said in a statement.

«Investors» calls for greater gender diversity appear to be nudging nominating committees to find more women to serve on boards at U.S. firms.»

«While women still make up less than 20 percent of U.S. boards on average, movement toward greater gender parity is evident with the proportion of new nominees that are women nearly doubling over the past seven years at larger firms,» Kamonjoh said in a statement.

It's a problem Vicki Saunders is trying to fix in the venture capital space where, in Canada, women represent just seven percent of partners at the top firms.

«A profitable firm at which 30 percent of leaders are women could expect to add more than 1 percentage point to its net margin compared with an otherwise similar firm with no female leaders,» the report notes.

The Peterson Institute for International Economics completed a survey of 21,980 firms from 91 countries and found that having women at the C - Suite level significantly increases net margins.

Whether you look at straight demographic statistics, listen to the testimony in the recent sexual harassment suit against storied VC firm Kleiner Perkins, or talk to female founders about their experiences fundraising, the picture you get of the industry's openness to women isn't the rosiest.

Another 2016 report from the National Venture Capital Association and Deloitte University Leadership Center for Inclusion found that 11 percent of investment partners at 217 firms are women.

According to a study by TechCrunch last year, 7 percent of partners at the top 100 VC firms are women.

The percentage of women at the SVP level and higher has steadily risen, and there are now three women on the firm's 15 - person management committee, up from just one in 2010.

After all, venture capital firms are made up of mostly men, and some continue to suggest that women aren't cut out for the tech world at all.

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.

Only about 8 percent of VC partners at the top firms polled are women, according to Crunchbase.

Management at the largest tech firms, including Google, have publicly committed to diversifying their workforces, although the percentage of women in engineering and management roles remains low at many companies.

Designing these applications to be attractive to women is also just good business, says Meltem Demirors, who recently left her post as a vice president at Digital Currency Group, a cryptocurrency - and blockchain - focused investment firm that she helped launch in 2015.

But I was never as dumb as author James Damore who wrote a 3,200 word manifesto saying the reason why women and some minorities aren't more represented at his firm is due to biological differences.

Led by corporate members, it certifies firms that are at least 51 % owned, managed and controlled by women and connects them with the growing global demand from corporations and the public sector for diverse and innovative suppliers.

The number of woman and minority - owned private equity firms rose to 240 at year - end, up from...

One reason may be that women, according to PitchBook, make up just 6.3 % of investment professionals with board seats at U.S. venture - capital firms.

The number of woman and minority - owned private equity firms had risen to 220 at mid-year, up from approximately 185 at the end of 2016.

The Federal Reserve Banks of New York and Kansas City will issue the 2016 Small Business Credit Survey: Report on Women - Owned Firms at 2:00 PM EST (1:00 PM CST) on Thursday, November 30.

-- 7 percent of investing partners at the top 100 venture and micro-venture firms are women.