The concentration of IGF in the blood is about 13 percent lower in vegan
women than in women who consume dairy.
Sinusitis is actually over six times more common in pregnant
women than in women who are not pregnant.
Not exact matches
Amid all the angst about the small percentage of
women who work in computer science, a new research paper has a surprising finding: Women may actually be better coders than
women who work
in computer science, a new research paper has a surprising finding:
Women may actually be better coders than
Women may actually be better coders
than men.
In other words, companies run by men got more
than 16 times more funding
than companies run by
women.
In Japan, a Tokyo governor recently ordered municipal employees to finish their work by 8:00 p.m., after a 25 - year - old woman employed by Dentsu, an advertising company, jumped to her death after logging more than 105 overtime hours in one mont
In Japan, a Tokyo governor recently ordered municipal employees to finish their work by 8:00 p.m., after a 25 - year - old
woman employed by Dentsu, an advertising company, jumped to her death after logging more
than 105 overtime hours
in one mont
in one month.
The implicit idea is that we
women — more
than half the earth's population — are all
in one giant sisterhood club together.
In 2011, Timothy Judge and Daniel M. Cable, both professors at Cleveland State, also explored the relationship between weight and wage, and they founds that «a
woman who is average weight earns $ 389,300 less across a 25 - year career
than a
woman who is 25 pounds below average weight.»
British bank Barclays recently started issuing exchange - traded notes on the NYSE Arca exchange (similar to ETFs, only they are derivatives guaranteed by the bank rather
than invested
in the underlying securities) that track a
Women in Leadership index of U.S. companies whose CEOs are women or whose boards are at least one - quarter fe
Women in Leadership index of U.S. companies whose CEOs are
women or whose boards are at least one - quarter fe
women or whose boards are at least one - quarter female.
In Indonesia, Malaysia, Peru, Philippines, Vietnam and Thailand,
women had «equal or higher entrepreneurship rates
than men.»
The reason
women aren't getting promoted from the bottom ranks isn't that
women aren't negotiating —
in fact,
women negotiate for promotions and raises more often
than men do.
In fact, across the Arab world, women now earn more science degrees on a percentage basis than women in the United State
In fact, across the Arab world,
women now earn more science degrees on a percentage basis
than women in the United State
in the United States.
To date, she has collected more
than 10,000 books and spoke alongside Michelle Obama and Oprah Winfrey at the United State of
Women Summit
in 2016.
«Nothing — nothing — is more daunting, more frustrating, more complex,
than trying to lead men and
women in tough times,» McRaven said.
A Babson College study reported that
in 1999, fewer
than 5 percent of venture capital investments went to companies with a
woman on the executive team.
But the specific habits cited
in this new book are going to resonate with
women much more
than men.
But discrimination isn't the obvious reason why there are fewer
women than men
in Silicon Valley, so solving discrimination won't necessarily take us to the goal of a 50 - 50 representation.
In one, scholars were asked to read and rate research papers; unbeknown to them, the names had been changed to change the gender of the authors, and the scholars rated the papers «written» by men as better
than the ones that appeared to be authored by
women.
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.
Once at a table, the
women wait until their sons or husbands — all of whom have been imprisoned for more
than a decade and have over a decade to go — come out to spend a morning
in the gloomy room to talk and eat food from the vending machines.
As she worked at a startup
in 2015, she raised more
than $ 9,000 through Indiegogo for an avocado - and - oil deep conditioner for black
women with frizzy or unruly curls.
Black
women are also making great strides, and are unique
in that they actually own more businesses
than black men — about 59 percent of the total number of black - owned businesses.
While there are some organizations that are championing
women in the right way and some sectors are taking the current «moment» more seriously
than others, Leader - Chivée isn't comfortable with society resting on its laurels.
Women in combi - offices were also slightly more likely
than men to say that the setups were noisy and distracting (56.3 % versus 50.5 %).
Neither of these proved to be true, and
in fact, the changes suggested by
women, on average, involved significantly more lines of code
than those of men.
A 2015 study found that
women who applied for professorships
in STEM areas (excluding economics) were more likely to be hired
than similarly qualified male candidates.
Félix starred
in more
than 47 movies and defied stereotypical roles for
women in film.
«[
Women's] natural conservatism means women end up owning more of their company and may get to profitability sooner than if they had all the capital in the world,» says Singh Cas
Women's] natural conservatism means
women end up owning more of their company and may get to profitability sooner than if they had all the capital in the world,» says Singh Cas
women end up owning more of their company and may get to profitability sooner
than if they had all the capital
in the world,» says Singh Cassidy.
A serial entrepreneur — she owns four restaurants and has founded two companies
in addition to Thinx — Agrawal says that the danger of male investors asking the
women in their lives for advice is that, more often
than not, those
women are not their target customers.
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.
When I ran an education company
in New York, one with more
than 100 teachers and employees, I met a Dominican - American
woman from the Bronx named Beretzi.
One 2005 study found that those preferences can play out
in how often people approach each other online:
women who were 6» 3» tall received 40 % fewer messages
than women who were a more average 5» 5», while men who were 6» 3» and 6» 4» got about 60 % more messages
than men who were 5» 7» or 5» 8».
Women in general have less access
than men to capital (including venture and private equity investment and government loans), markets, and networks.
Women consistently rated better than men in overall leadership ability; the higher up in the organization the leaders were, the bigger the discrepancy between men and women, and the more the women s
Women consistently rated better
than men
in overall leadership ability; the higher up
in the organization the leaders were, the bigger the discrepancy between men and
women, and the more the women s
women, and the more the
women s
women shone.
In 2016, women got just 2.19 % of venture capital funding — a smaller piece of the pie than in every year this past decade, with the exception of 2008 and 201
In 2016,
women got just 2.19 % of venture capital funding — a smaller piece of the pie
than in every year this past decade, with the exception of 2008 and 201
in every year this past decade, with the exception of 2008 and 2012.
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.
Another culture that treats
women as less
than men (such that female infanticide still happens regularly), India, nevertheless, finds females
in 30 percent of programming jobs, compared with 21 percent
in the U.S.
Women are actually more likely
than men to succeed
in crowdfunding.
Add those reasons to the long, frequently cited list of why
women lose confidence
in their careers: They make, on average, $ 8,000 less per year
than their male counterparts; they aren't afforded the same opportunities for advancement; they're penalized for having kids.
Just because the number of
women in technology - related fields has always been dramatically lower
than that of men doesn't mean that things will stay that way.
Women took notice — Millennials
in particular — and Into the Gloss quickly attracted more
than 1 million visitors per month.
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.
But she's keen to emphasize that innovation is about more
than just technology, citing the example of a local female entrepreneur
in the construction industry who couldn't find workboots for
women and started a company to manufacture them.
Before launching Circle
in 2013, she was — among other things — the CEO and COO of the Kashf Foundation, where she expanded a small micro-lending pilot program into an entity that provided more
than 300,000
women with loans («98 % of which were repaid
in full,» she says with a proud smile).
«Ten years ago, we were at 16 [
women in the Senate] and even 20 years ago we had fewer
than 10
women serving
in the Senate,» she said.
And when they do, they'll buy it
in bulk, which men are much more likely to do
than are
women.
Furthermore, they pointed out that men's sponsors tend to be
in more senior roles
than women's, which implies the ability to help their protégés more.
Women filed about a third of all trademarks
in recent years but fewer
than a fifth of patents.
A 2010 University of Brasilia study found that 1
in 5 Brazilian
women under 40 — more
than 5 million
women overall, or about 22 % of Brazil's population — had had at least one abortion.
After building three successful locations
in San Diego County and Washington D.C., Hanson's next mission is to support more
than 20,000
women in the launch and growth of their business by 2020.
In most cases, the sketches based on the strangers» perspectives corresponded to more accurate and flattering depictions
than those based on the
women's own self - effacing descriptions.