Sentences with phrase «women in power positions»

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But as women, there are particular hurdles that can make the journey upward toward positions of power and influence — in myriad spheres — especially challenging.

And women, especially women in positions of power, too often neglect their own professional development.

Unilever, the parent company of dozens of household brands such as Dove, stopped producing ads featuring gender stereotypes in 2016 upon determining that a mere 2 percent of all ads feature intelligent women, 3 percent show women in positions of power and 1 percent portray women with a sense of humor, Fortune reports.

Elevating more women and underrepresented minorities to positions of power is becoming a business imperative for the firm, with clients demanding diversity in their legal teams, Erickson says.

Gino, in an email exchange, told me that some in the audience interpreted her research to say that, «women are not ambitious or that women should not be offered positions of power.»

Hartmann believes that the dearth of women in positions of political power is directly related to the wage gap and their lack of power in the business world.

Whatever the means, the end goal ought to be equal gender representation in positions of power, and not just for optics: women make more than 80 % of consumer purchases and are responsible for more than 50 % of business procurement decisions.

«We need a critical number of women in positions of power, and we need to nurture the feminine energy in men,» she says.

A short video from one female executive won't change that, but hopefully a lot more women in positions of power and a growing awareness that burning the midnight oil takes a serious toll on families, relationships and even individuals (not to mention a more equitable sharing of housework and childcare between the sexes) will slowly make it safe for more of us to say to our bosses — or admit to ourselves — what Sandberg has just said publicly.

When I claim that label, I'm connecting not only with a number of active feminists who are working today to help women, but with an ongoing history of feminists who got women the vote, who made birth control happen, who got women into positions of power in the government, who worked to rectify racial inequality and fight against things like mandatory sterilization of welfare recipients.

She rightly saw the distrust between men and women as being rooted in the unequal distribution of power between them: «At any given time, the more powerful side will create an ideology suitable to help maintain its position and to make this position more acceptable to the weaker one... It is the function of such an ideology to deny or conceal the existence of a struggle.»

I can guarantee that if women had been in power positions within these organizations, and heard the allegations, they would have acted on it.

The Church cant have that, it would put woman in a position of power so they made Mary a harlot.

We all know of instances in which racial minorities, women, and colonized countries — as soon as they have gotten into a position of independence and power — have become more oppressive than those who had oppressed them.

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Many of the reformers had a deep distrust of women in any positions of power.

They would not allow any woman to be seen in a position of power — any type of power.

I hope we have 50 percent women in the workplace in power positions.

if men are not superior to women in the christian world, why do they occupy 90 % of the positions of power and wealth?

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So to blame the «masculinity crisis» on the few women who have managed to ascend to significant leadership positions in the Church in recent years, especially when men continue to dominate the field, grossly overstates the amount of power women have over the institution and turns them into unnecessary scapegoats.

But they view it as a matter of social systems that have socialized males to an extreme that favors power and control, while assigning women the more «humane» qualities but placing them in a powerless and dependent position.

When people in positions of power — most of whom are men — do make genuine, concerted efforts to hire women, mentor them, invite them on their podcasts and shows, and give them opportunities to do great work, it makes a huge difference.

I mean, it's not like young women are attracted to older men in positions of power or anything, right?

This jargon was constructed by the mostly male minds that invented OBGYN, and was intended to place women in a passive position, while declaring conquest and power over their own basic bodily processes.

Since women make the vast majority of healthcare decisions in their families — and have the buying power to do it — we women are in a very powerful position to influence the future of healthcare in America.

Women are less present in positions of power because they are taught, from an early age on, to shun particularly «male» careers and give priority to others, more focused on care and communication, for instance.

As cheering as this figure might sound, at the present rate of increase, it could take another 100 years again, before we achieve an equal balance of men and women in positions of political power.

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Doran said the policy updated is needed to reflect what's going on nationally as women have come forward to reveal harassment by men in positions of power leading to action being taken.

For nearly an hour, assistant U.S. attorney Tatiana Martins told a jury of nine women and three men of the power Dean Skelos, the former senate majority leader, had amassed in Albany and how he used his position to «strong - arm businesses that depended on his vote in the Senate.»

Actress Meryl Streep said she thinks that if more women were in positions of power in Hollywood then the industry would not have tolerated or enabled the behavior of influential alleged predators like Harvey Weinstein.

Yet Mahoney notes that the 96 women employed in the governor's Executive Chamber are mostly in lower - paying jobs, while «the 52 men are disproportionately represented in the positions with the highest salaries and most power.»

Assemblyman Karim Camara, chair of the Black, Puerto Rican Hispanic & Asian Legislative Caucus, told me on CapTon last night that he «commends anyone who wants to work in a bipartisan fashion,» but just can't get comfortable with the fact that there would be no people of color — not to mention very few women — in positions of significant power if the power - sharing agreement Sen. Jeff Klein is pushing comes to pass.

Leaders within those groups say there is a shift happening, seen in recent months by the emergence of women and some men who have come forward to reveal their stories of abuse and harassment by people in positions of power.

The social stigma of entering a male - dominated field with a macho culture, the fear of intimidation and discrimination, and the lack of mentors and role models in positions of power are commonly cited reasons for women exiting or failing to enter the engineering workforce.

What is needed in order to increase the numbers of underrepresented minorities in science, engineering, and technological fields is a push for a new and concrete plan of action, with mandatory implementation guidelines, adopted at the national level which focuses on transitioning women and underrepresented minorities into positions of power.

The likelier scenario is a population implosion marked by increasing numbers of older, healthier citizens, and more women in positions of power, a situation that could be beneficial for child rearing, philanthropy, diplomacy, and other aspects of our civilized life.

And some filled the gap they felt the original post left by offering their own advice to women scientists coping with unwanted attention from a man in a position of power.

We have built a narrative around the scarcity of women in positions of power.

«As women in senior leadership positions in advertising, we've agreed that we have the power to change this business we love until it looks more like the industry we want to lead,» reads a «Letter of Solidarity» on the group's new website launched this week.

in London, more older women than ever before are in positions of power in their chosen profession and no longer feel that they need to accept or be told what they can or can not do; if they want to enjoy cougar dating with a young, virile, handsome man, the question these days is: why not?

The richest women in the world made their wealth themselves and are in positions of leadership and power because of their hard work.

The movie's commentary on Kay's importance as a woman in this position of power isn't subtle — consider the scene when she wades into the crowd on the courthouse steps and finds herself surrounded by female well - wishers.

That's why The Post works — because its locus point is a humane, sincere portrayal of a woman in a position of power, and the huge impact she ended up having.

Ben Affleck, who worked with Weinstein on «Good Will Hunting,» wrote in a statement on Facebook that he was «addened and angry that a man who I worked with used his position of power to intimidate, sexually harass, and manipulate women over decades.»

Deadline reports that 94 % of women surveyed by the National Sexual Violence Resource Center said they had been subjected to some sort of harassment or abuse by an older individual in a position of power.

«I personally witnessed two men in high positions of power on that set seek out and verbally abuse multiple women,» she wrote in the deleted Instagram post.

It implicates the ugliest, most selfish aspect of Nature in the founding of the United States, mining resonance in the idea of «Manifest Destiny» — in the process giving women a starring role: positions of real power in which they're depended upon for their strength rather than exploited for some idea of their weakness.

Fonda went on to add that men with few credits often get handed huge roles, and that «[w] e have to shame the studios for being so gender - biased» while «fight [ing] real hard to get women in positions of power and remember [ing] there are no set rules.»