Sentences with phrase «women hold roles»

Interestingly, legal professionals have a wage gap of 10.3 % in favour of men, yet 53 % of women hold roles in these key professions; once again shutting down a justification for a gender pay gap, when in reality more women take ownership of the industry.

Cristina Antelo, a principal at the Podesta Group and former Democratic Senate staffer and current vice chairman of the nonpartisan Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute, noted that 43 percent of Udall's staff is Latino, the most of any senator, probably because his chief of staff, Bianca Ortiz - Wertheim, is one of only two Hispanic women holding that role in the Senate.

Not exact matches

Those numbers seem to be shifting as more women hold leadership roles in business, says Grossblatt.

Stepping into her new role this week as the first African - American woman to hold the position of First Captain of the U.S. Military Academy's Corps of Cadets, Askew will be responsible for overseeing the performance of approximately 4,400 students, according to the Associated Press.

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.

By 2015, eight years into her tenure as the bank's chief human resources officer, women held two - fifths of those roles at RBC and visible minorities, 16 %.

Her story is inspirational for both men and women — but how helpful is it really to hold Sandberg or her C - suite counterparts up as role models for the majority of working moms?

For example, millions of jobs primarily held by women, mainly administrative and service jobs, are threatened by the rise of automation, while the slow progress toward pay equity in many industries plays a major role.

Of the 826 firms in CrunchBase that have substantial teams, women hold down 22 percent of the roles on the investment team at the associate, vice president and principal levels.

«Our research into the proportion of senior business roles held by women has revealed precious little movement over the past decade,» said Francesca Lagerberg, global leader, tax services and Europe, Grant Thornton, in a statement.

Women hold just under 12 percent of the partner roles at both accelerators and corporate venture firms.

The item got passed around from site to site, and a consensus began to form: The desperate not - quite - It Girl was Gretchen Mol, whose movie roles were starting to dry up; the new target was Blake Lively, beginning to transition from TV to film; and in the center of it all, between two beautiful young women whose careers he held in the palm of his hands, was Harvey Weinstein.

>> McKinsey and Company's research into what holds women back in the workplace showed that a «lack of role models [and] exclusion from informal networks» were top reasons cited for not progressing in one's career.

The Annual Rosenzweig Report on Women at the Top Levels of Corporate Canada looks at the 100 largest publicly - traded companies in Canada, based on revenue, and examines how many of the top - paid leadership roles are held by wWomen at the Top Levels of Corporate Canada looks at the 100 largest publicly - traded companies in Canada, based on revenue, and examines how many of the top - paid leadership roles are held by womenwomen.

The three - day Women in the World Summit, held at New York City's Lincoln Center, presents powerful new female role models whose personal stories illuminate the most pressing international issues.

Prior to her roles at Pfizer, she held various leadership positions at Texas Instruments, GSE Systems, Warner Lambert and as a co-owner of women - run RMR Associates, a consulting company where she advised major organizations such as Warner Lambert and Illinois Power.

These trends also held true when Credit Suisse looked at how many women companies had in senior management roles.

They hold less than 20 percent of the top roles on Wall Street and some of the largest banks have barely any women executives at all: Citigroup has none and JP Morgan and Morgan Stanley have just one each.

At Google, Facebook, and Microsoft, women hold between 19 percent and 28 percent of leadership positions and between 19 percent and 20 percent of technical roles, according to those companies» most recent figures.

For some Christians, feminism contradicts deeply held beliefs about gender and the characteristics and roles they believe were assigned to men and women at the point of creation.

You can hold that a woman is so made that she enters into her sexual identity and so finds a particular fulfillment by giving cooperative support to a male leader, or that she is not; you can hold that a man is so made that he enters into his sexual identity and so finds a particular fulfillment by taking responsibility for a female helper, or that he is not; and you can argue across the board for whichever view of Bible teaching on role relationships fits in with your idea.

This is not to say that women can't be great at roles traditionally held by men and vice — versa but to suggest that biology is a factor in how we are with each other and not that it is all down to what is socially constructed.

Elizabeth Nordquist, who has headed the southwest chapter of the Evangelical Women's Caucus, offered valuable suggestions, as did Mary Ellen Godfrey, who holds to a more traditional posture concerning women's rWomen's Caucus, offered valuable suggestions, as did Mary Ellen Godfrey, who holds to a more traditional posture concerning women's rwomen's roles.

While Biblical hermeneutics provided the key to an understanding of the role of women in the church and family, dialogue between those whose traditions have heard the Word of God differently in other times and places held the key for the discussion of social ethics, and engagement with the full range of cultural activity (from psychotherapy to radical protest, from personal testimony to scientific statement) was the locus for theological evaluation concerning homosexuality.

Rachel Held Evans has written a comprehensive, impeccably researched, heartfelt, whimsical, scripture - honoring book about the role and experience of women in Christian society.

Because men are invariably the fathers of children for whom women are mothers, and those men are permitted to hold all those other roles too, right?

The same holds true for making contributions to the local church, for participating in nonworship activities at church, for upholding the traditional role of women, for being dissatisfied with today's moral climate, and for expressing traditional and more restrictive sexual values.

Ms Mullally, who is the first woman to hold the third most important role in the Church of England, suggested that the institution should be at the heart of communities if it is to stay current.

The same difference in response holds true for making contributions to the local church, for participating in nonworship activities at a church, and for social attitudes such as upholding the traditional role of women, being dissatisfied with today «s moral climate and holding traditional and more restrictive sexual values.

Jefferts Schori is the presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church and the first woman to hold that role.

being criticized but affirmed, and that the changes called for don't necessarily mean that women are being asked to give up the roles they now hold.

GET A PRINT OF THIS CARTOON «Complementarianism is a theological view held by some in Christianity, Judaism, and Islam, that men and women have different but complementary roles and responsibilities in marriage, family life,...

Coping with the contrast between their traditional nonaggressive role in society and the no - holds - barred climate on the court leads to some interesting discussions, like what happens when women start beating up on men.

It turns out that because of communism suppressing the individual and forcing men and women to wear drab clothing and to suppress the natural gender roles that when communism fell, the women at least came out of it and started take to being feminine once again... they have always held to traditional ways and they aren't confused by feminism.

Women have become highly motivated because they have been left holding the bag in broken marriages and out of necessity in providing for their children have become «The Man» So Gloria Steinem was succesful in not only destroying the family unit but turning genders upside down and reversing their true roles and nature.

I've held the role for 5 years and in the first 2 years it was a breastfeeding pilot project to help women initiate and prolong duration.

Prior to joining BabyCenter, Linda held a variety of editorial positions at national women's magazines, as well as a production role in public television.

Among the reasons given for the falling rates: teens waiting longer to have intercourse, increased use of contraception and, the report posits, the recession likely played some role in holding down recent teen birth rates as it did among all other women under 40.

Because Beyoncé looked great despite being pregnant with twins, and was energetic while carrying that load - and appeared to have held it together, others saw her as a role model for pregnant women.

McKenna held the role for the 2012 cycle, when she was the first woman to head a Senate committee's IE arm, and again for the 2014 cycle.

She is the first woman to hold this role.

Disappointed not to be continuing as Education Secretary & Min for Women & Equalities - two wonderful roles it's been a privilege to hold

Quinn, the first woman and first openly gay individual to hold her leadership role, made multiple trips to Albany over the past several years to personally lobby senators on same - sex marriage.

He said, «The UNHCR recognises his role as a mediator between the government and the insurgents for the release of the 82 Chibok girls and the 21 young women held captive by Boko Haram for two years.»

We talked to first - term school board members, county legislators, women who are the first of their gender to hold roles in the Democratic conference or to represent their senate district, and we talked to women who've served at the national level.

Already on Tuesday, elected officials were discussing the symbolism of the role, suggesting that they would like to see a woman, perhaps a woman of color, hold the office for the first time.

Regardless of whether they hold a career, women tend to shoulder a greater proportion of domestic work than do men, and they typically balance multiple conflicting roles — professional, Mommy, house worker, etc..

«If our results hold true in a modern sample of pregnant women, then further exploring the role of vitamin D in reducing the risk of preeclampsia would be warranted,» said Dr. Bodnar.

NASAScience4Girls and Their Families is a multi-faceted effort, reflecting the role of the SMD Forums in increasing: the efficiency and effectiveness of the SMD E / PO program, the partnerships between NASA science education programs and libraries, and the educational events held in conjunction with Women's History Month.

(Photo by On October 1st, Pathways to Science, a mentorship program working to connect young women interested in science with role models in the world of science, held its first event at PPPL.)