I am a member of Chicago
Women in Publishing and my experience through the large as well as small networking events has been tremendous in teaching me what I am capable of accomplishing in my own career.
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An ebook's journey from creation to circulation» 3:30 - Noah Genner (BookNet Canada), «How We Read Digitally: ebookcraft 2018 research study» 4:25 - Monique Mongeon (BookNet Canada), «How We Read Digitally: ebookcraft 2018 research study» 5:12 - Ellen Ullman (Life in Code), «Ellen Ullman in Conversation» 7:38 - Scaachi Koul (Buzzfeed), «
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She co-founded the Chicago Self - Publishing Meetup Group to help educate aspiring authors on the joys of self - publishing, and she is the Publicity Chair for Chicago
Women in Publishing.
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It's
Women in Publishing («Bücherfrauen «-RRB- Germany's 25th anniversary this year.
Finally, Digital Book World recently had
a Women in Publishing event in New York, he sums up what exactly transpired.
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Before the opening ceremony with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron, The Markets conference included conversations about
women in publishing and the role of publishing in politically challenging times.
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She serves on the board of directors for Gavin's Got Heart, is a member of the Exceptional
Women in Publishing organization, and is a Power Circle member of Ellevate, a global professional women's network.
And where all the dynamics of the day's presentations come together is in a closing blue - ribbon panel of executives in publishing who are women: «Breaking the Glass Ceiling:
Women in Publishing.»
Founded in 1972, Chicago
Women in Publishing (CWIP) is one of the oldest and largest publishing associations in the Chicago area.
He writes, «Men simply don't seem as interested as
women in publishing books for the very young, in the same way that men seem less interested in teaching the very young in our schools.»
Our colleague here at Publishing Perspectives Dennis Abrams wrote it up in the form of a question based on a Times report: Are Boys Not Reading Because of
All Those Women in Publishing?
Not exact matches
Earlier this year, for example, Judy Zaichkowsky of Simon Fraser University's Beedie School of Business
published a study indicating that the presence of just one
woman on a company's board resulted
in significantly higher standards of corporate governance (which has an established correlation to better financial performance).
As much as recent efforts to encourage
women in STEM education and STEM jobs have helped move the needle a bit, the culture of science has often made life for
women scientists harder than it already is — excluding them from clubby
publishing and peer review networks and sometimes outright snubbing their achievements.
Women earn an average of 79 cents for every dollar a man makes
in the US, according to a 2016 report
published by the Joint Economic Committee Democratic Staff.
A panel of three entrepreneurs discussed the relationship between purpose and profitability
in greater depth: Pocket Sun, who, as founding partner of female - focused VC firm SoGal Ventures, has a purpose of «building an empire for millennial
women to invest
in startups»; Eileen Gittins, a serial entrepreneur who founded book self -
publishing firm Blurb and now runs Bossygrl, a mobile app meant to introduce Gen Z girls to entrepreneurship by helping them launch micro-businesses; and Cathie Reid, co-founder and current digital advisor to Icon Group, an Australian cancer - care company with annual revenue of more than $ 1.5 billion.
The Times article cited a study
published in the journal Psychological Science, which found that when happily married
women held their spouses» hand while they received mild electric shocks, the parts of their brain associated with pain were less active than when they weren't holding their spouse's hand.
The Information
published a story
in which six
women, including Niniane Wang, Susan Ho, and Leiti Hsu, accused Binary Capital Partner Justin Caldbeck of making unwanted sexual advances while they were pitching him for a potential investment.
Chika Oduah — Freelance: Oduah's work has been
published in the New York Times, Huffington Post, The Atlantic, CNN, and many more, and she serves as an outspoken advocate for
women's rights
in Africa.
Co-founder and CEO Evan Sharp outlined Pinterest's initiative to include more
women and minorities by 2016,
in a blog post
published earlier today.
A Washington Post article
published last week documented four
women's claims that Moore pursued relationships with them when they were teenagers and he was
in his 30s.
She is also a formidable voice for
women's empowerment
in Turkey, a nation with one of the worst gender gaps
in the workplace; the university founded and chaired by Sabancı made headlines last year when it
published a report on the impact of domestic violence against white - collar working
women in Turkey.
According to research
published last year
in Psychology of
Women Quarterly, people making hiring decisions — even those who profess to believe
in gender equality — overwhelmingly associate qualified female candidates with diminished competence.
The researchers, who
published their finding
in the journal, Health Psychology, found that
women rated healthy dishes more favorably when they prepared the food themselves.
A study
published in March
in the journal Neurology suggested that
women who were physically fit
in middle age were roughly 88 % less likely to develop dementia — defined as a decline
in memory severe enough to interfere with daily life — than their peers who were only moderately fit.
In 2013, Pinterest engineer Tracy Chou provided an honest look at the underrepresentation of
women at her company, which helped spur other tech companies to
publish demographic data.
Currently they release information on the number of
women in their total workforce and
in their leadership roles and
publish more detailed information about gender balance internally, but are still working with lawyers to navigate the stricter data collection and protection measures
in Germany, where the company is based, and other countries where their employees work, SAP's chief diversity and inclusion officer Anka Wittenberg told Fortune.
Earlier
in the day, Kasowitz sent a letter to Times executive editor Dean Baquet accusing the newspaper of
publishing a «libelous article» with respect to a report, first
published online on Wednesday evening,
in which two
women accused Trump of touching (and
in one case kissing) them inappropriately
in separate incidents.
When this year's Fortune 500 was
published in June, there were a record 32
women in CEO jobs, up from 21
in 2016.
The number first appeared
in a German manual for midwives
published in 1836, and it's an estimate from a
woman's last period all the way through to birth.
X Squared — which has 22 members, more than half of whom are
women — has invested up to $ 447,500
in 10 companies
in the
publishing, education, retail, fashion and software sectors.
Her best - selling book I'll Be Gone
in the Dark: One
Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer,
published after her untimely death
in 2016, has been widely credited with solving the case.
Also on Tuesday, April 10, TMZ
published a surveillance video that was reportedly taken back
in October — when Kardashian was three months pregnant — of Thompson appearing to cheat on her with two
women at a hookah lounge outside Washington, DC.
By measuring the dilation of their pupils — an indicator of sexual arousal, as proven by a previous study of his
published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Savin - Williams and his team were able to conclude that
women were aroused by pornography featuring
women with men and
women with
women.
In fact, in the U.K., it's mandatory for businesses with more than 250 employees to publish a report this year, and the legal requirement has got more companies speaking out about how more senior positions need to be filled by wome
In fact,
in the U.K., it's mandatory for businesses with more than 250 employees to publish a report this year, and the legal requirement has got more companies speaking out about how more senior positions need to be filled by wome
in the U.K., it's mandatory for businesses with more than 250 employees to
publish a report this year, and the legal requirement has got more companies speaking out about how more senior positions need to be filled by
women.
Similar behavior was detailed by
women who accused Trump
in articles
published late Wednesday by The New York Times and the Palm Beach Post.
Published by Alfred A. Knopf Inc., «Lean
In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead» will be launched Thursday with a reception in New York City hosted by Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Arianna Huffingto
In:
Women, Work, and the Will to Lead» will be launched Thursday with a reception
in New York City hosted by Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Arianna Huffingto
in New York City hosted by Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Arianna Huffington.
Research
published in September 2011 by the Level Playing Field Institute (LPFI) revealed that hidden biases within the I.T. workplace caused
women and blacks to have negative workplace experiences far more often than their male and white counterparts.
In a study of flu - related deaths between 1997 and 2007, published by the American Journal of Epidemiology, a group of researchers found that mortality was more common in men than women across multiple age - groups, regardless of underlying condition
In a study of flu - related deaths between 1997 and 2007,
published by the American Journal of Epidemiology, a group of researchers found that mortality was more common
in men than women across multiple age - groups, regardless of underlying condition
in men than
women across multiple age - groups, regardless of underlying conditions.
After the Washington Post
published a 2005 recording
in which Donald Trump made lewd comments about
women, some Republican leaders said they would no longer support Trump, and a few have called on Trump to quit the race entirely.
A recent study
published in the Harvard Business Review shed some insight into different ways men and
women react to the input of their peers.
In a recent Christmas catalog, Bloomingdale's
published an ad where a
woman is laughing during a holiday party with her hair thrown back.
Following the accounts of the
women, most notably a scathing description by software engineer Susan Fowler, Uber said it would
publish a diversity report
in the coming months.
That's according to a new survey
published by the World Economic Forum, which evaluates
women's well - being
in the realms of education, health, politics and the economy.
On Thursday, the Los Angeles Times
published a report
in which five
women accused Franco of «inappropriate or sexually exploitative behavior,» including four
women who were once students of Franco's at different acting schools.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump again dismissed as «locker room talk» the newly
published lewd comments he made about
women in a 2005 conversation,