Sentences with phrase «women in leading»

«The commercial real estate industry is opening up, becoming more diverse,» says Johnston, adding that she looks forward to a point where having women in leading roles in different sectors is no longer a conversation topic.

After years of being told that female characters don't sell games or are too time - consuming to draw, E3 2015 provided a heartening influx of women in leading roles.

As we enter into the second half of 2016, the half of the year where the releases tend to be richer, let's take a look at the top ten most highly anticipated films with women in leading and co-leading roles.

The modern world has witnessed women in leading positions in organization across the globe.

The aim is to «increase the number of women in leading positions» in academe, government, industry, nonprofit organizations, and elsewhere by «rais [ing] the visibility» of outstanding women, said Ingrid Wünning Tschol, senior vice president for health and science at the Robert Bosch Stiftung, in a speech to the first European Conference for Science Journalists at the Euroscience Open Forum on 22 July.

Not only is this unfair, but it misses the real story of how today's big philanthropy is unfolding as new mega-donors enter the scene — with women in the lead.

This one does have a woman in the lead, an American paleontologist played by Mary Elizabeth Winstead, but she's basically Kurt Russell with rounder eyes.

Considering the movie's target audience, it's refreshing to see a strong, independent woman in the lead.

Secondly, from a purely economic point of view, I just proved that if you put women in the lead of a movie you can make over $ 100m.»

And Good News: 40 % of the year's top 20 highest grossers (Inside Out, Cinderella, The Force Awakens, Mad Max Fury Road, Mockingjay Part 2, Pitch Perfect 2, Home, Fifty Shades of Grey) have a woman in the leading role.

Executive: But if a movie has a woman in the lead, it stops being a movie for everyone and becomes a movie just for ladies that I will get cooties if I touch.

Offering a twist to the original tale, the new version will cast Moore and another woman in the leads for the film, which is set in New York.

Lichtenstein said he originally pictured a British woman in the lead, but after seeing Jena Malone, he was sold.

Lots of things could change between now and 2015, but between Finding Dory and Inside Out, is this a sign that Pixar is trying to make up for a long period of their history with very little women in lead roles?

Here they are, in alphabetical order along with two numbers accompanying each name: how many feature films they've made since 2000, and how many of those films had a woman in a lead role.

As Deadline Hollywood reports, the streak of movies with people of color and women in the lead finishing at No. 1 at the box office will end this weekend as Steven Spielberg's action - packed «Ready Player One,» an adaptation of Ernest Cline's best - seller starring Tye Sheridan, is expected to top the list.

«Wonder Woman» stands to be the first superhero blockbuster with a woman in the lead role.

Hollywood has been under fire in the media for constantly using very young women in lead roles opposite much older men.

Even better, Fifty Shades of Grey and Pitch Perfect 2 raked in the cash with both female directors (Sam Taylor - Johnson and Elizabeth Banks, respectively) behind the camera and women in the lead roles.

Now, some actresses have taken their fates into their own hands and more male filmmakers are writing films with women in the leads.

Now, it's 2018 and there's a new Star Wars franchise with a woman in the lead role.

When Jolie took the title role in the 2001 film Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, it represented the height of the character's fame — becoming the highest - grossing video game movie (until it was outdone by Prince of Persia nine years later) and breaking records for a film with a woman in the leading role.

Not exact matches

Petraeus violated his own personal code of honor and duty toward his wife and family - and thus, in his eyes, toward his country, particularly to the men and women whom he was entrusted to lead at the CIA.

Case in point, a recent study from Abertay University in Scotland found that a woman that's seen as wearing too much makeup can affect people's perception of her ability to lead.

The average VC deal for among women - led companies last year was worth $ 4.5 million — compared to $ 6.1 million in 2015 and $ 5.1 million in 2014.

And after the emergence of the Access Hollywood tape in October 2016, in which Trump can be heard boasting about making unsolicited advances toward women, writer Natasha Stoynoff said that while on a reporting trip to Mar - a-Lago, Trump led her into a room alone, pushed her against a wall, and began trying to kiss her.

Now, both the SPD and the Christian Democrats — both parties in the country's ruling coalition — will be lead by women for the first time (the other woman is, of course, Chancellor Angela Merkel).

Heart disease is the leading cause of death for men and women in the U.S. Every year over 700,000 Americans have a heart attack and half of those are fatal.

«Nothing — nothing — is more daunting, more frustrating, more complex, than trying to lead men and women in tough times,» McRaven said.

This year, Sheryl Sandberg's Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead, due out in March, is that book, but it's also stirring up controversy about privilegIn: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead, due out in March, is that book, but it's also stirring up controversy about privilegin March, is that book, but it's also stirring up controversy about privilege.

And there are regrettably few women on the list — a reflection of how few female CEOs lead major public companies in Canada.

Like most VC firms, its goal is to make smart bets and earn strong returns — but that's exactly why 40 % of the portfolio companies in Aspect's first fund were led by women.

There was some positive news last year: Women - led companies made up 4.94 % of all VC deals in 2016 — the highest percentage in the past decade.

In a similar vein, the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation showed that women - led private technology companies have a 35 percent higher return on investment than male - led ones.

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.

«That made cancer, in Prudential's experience, the leading cause of death for middle - aged and older women and the third - leading cause for men.»

The presumptive Democratic nominee enjoys the largest gender gap in recorded history, with a recent Pew Research poll showing her leading among women by 24 points.

Women - led teams received just $ 1.9 billion of the total $ 85 billion invested by venture capitalists in 2017, which is just 2.2 percent of the year's total, according to data from VC database PitchBook, an M&A, private equity, and VC database, reported by Fortune.

Interpersonal phenomena like stereotype threat, in which people from stigmatized groups spend mental energy grappling with negative stereotypes about those groups, can lead women and minorities with the same skills to perform more poorly.

In its largest investment to date, the coworking space provider led a $ 32 million funding round for The Wing, a New York startup that runs women - only community spaces.

Pulled from this year's Inc. 5000, here are 10 Los Angeles - based companies led by some of the hardest working women in business.

We went the next year to Brazil — one of the top five fastest growing countries in the world, with lots of women - led start - ups — and then to India.

Less heralded by history was a group of six women who worked in wartime secrecy at the University of Pennsylvania, where John Mauchly and Presper Eckert led a team that was building ENIAC, the world's first programmable, all - electronic, general - purpose computer.

«Women have to work more than twice as much to compete against men, but she has led her father's business successfully while raising kids,» one women told The Japan Times in JanWomen have to work more than twice as much to compete against men, but she has led her father's business successfully while raising kids,» one women told The Japan Times in Janwomen told The Japan Times in January.

He hoped his modest set of requirements would make a small impact, lead to more visibility for women in tech and, in turn, change the ratio.

Inc. showed similar results in its annual look at the fastest - growing women - led businesses.

Meet the women - led companies that topped this year's list of the fastest - growing firms in Los Angeles.

And this concerted, targeted effort led by CEO Klaus Kleinfeld resulted in a 3.2 percentage point bump in executives and a 2.7 percentage point increase in women in professional and plant manager roles.

Research has shown that women - led companies perform better than companies with no women in leadership positions.

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