Sentences with phrase «women the size of»

There Fowles will be hit with a new round of challenges unique to women the size of WNBA centers trying to make it in the profession.

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But over the past year, the company has endured a series of embarrassments: soft sales, see - through pants and insensitive comments about plus - sized woman by founder Chip Wilson.

One - third of US women wear plus - size clothing, yet it remains difficult to find stylish plus - size options.

• Torrid, a plus - sized women retailer based out of City of Industry, Calif., filed for an IPO to raise $ 100 million Friday.

For example, Warshay worked with a pair of entrepreneurs who spent time in the prenatal vitamin section at Whole Foods, where they discovered women didn't like the large size of vitamin pills and potential side effects of nausea and constipation.

Perhaps the most prominent example of a company employing plus - sized models is Dove's «Real Beauty» campaign, which encourages women to celebrate their wrinkles, freckles and less - than - svelte physiques.

A study of older women with MCI found a tie between aerobic exercise and an increase in the size of the hippocampus, a brain area involved in learning and memory.

There are two different sizes of Apple Watch for men and women, and three distinct collections: Apple Watch, Apple Watch Sport, and Apple Watch Edition, which is made from 18 - karat gold — rose or yellow.

In a market saturated by macho ads like Oh Henry's «Feed your Hunger» campaign, the smaller - sized, 100 - calorie line of Cadbury Thins was called a «bull's - eye with women» by Cadbury execs.

According to Statistics Canada, 46 % of small and medium - sized Canadian businesses are at least partly owned by women.

It's a beautiful thing, that was the Sports Illustrated was ready to embrace women of all sizes.

The Most Powerful Women in Business list is compiled by FORTUNE editors, who consider four criteria: the size and importance of the woman's business in the global economy, the health and direction of the business, the arc of the woman's career (resume and runway ahead), and social and cultural influence.

The size of your inner circles depends on a lot of factors — including your personality (extroverts tend to maintain more intimate relationships), your gender (women tend to maintain more), and your age.

All of that said, the NIH researchers did not go so far as to make a clinical recommendation; after all, 125 women is a small sample size.

McQuaile plans to reach out to a variety of fashion publications and designers to assess how committed they are to catering to women of different shapes and sizes.

Another study, this time of exclusively older women with MCI, found that aerobic exercise was tied to an increase in the size of the hippocampus, a brain area involved in learning and memory.

«There's a lot of pitting skinny women against plus size women, or saying that curves should be a rule.»

What follows is a list of six changes companies of all sizes can make to become more equitable places for women to work.

(Check out the Lean In Collection, a library of images that instantly widens your options for the depiction of working women of all hues and sizes.)

Before they could build technology sophisticated enough to virtually size a woman for a bra without ever touching her skin, they needed to hire someone who knew the intricacies of the product.

The image that Wonder Woman projects (life - size cut outs of which have already appeared at UNHQ) is not culturally encompassing or sensitive - attributes the United Nations expects all its staff members to embody in the core value of respect for diversity.

William Bologna, chairman of Columbia Laboratories, a women's hygiene - pharmaceuticals manufacturer based in Hollywood, Fla., wanted to take advantage of international growth opportunities despite his company's relatively small — $ 12 million — size.

As in past years, we ranked these women on four major criteria: the size and importance of the woman's business in the global marketplace; her clout inside her company; her career trajectory; and in certain cases her cultural and social impact.

Unlike a similar study last year that found that women chiefs make more than men, this one had a far larger sample and controlled for «chief executives» tenure, characteristics of the firms (size, performance and risk), and the size and independence of the boards.»

Even if you've never bought a bra, you know how they're sized: the A — D cup system has been around since the 1930s when undergarment manufacturer S. H. Camp and Co. linked the size of women's breasts to the first four letters of the alphabet.

«We're honoring this unseen group of women,» says Dunaway, who characterizes her customers not just as self - identified tomboys and women in uniform (more on that later), but also plus - size women, transwomen, and women who she says simply «skew masculine.»

This distinction sets us apart since we're able to serve a greater range of women both in size and height,» Cameron, who previously designed denim for Calvin Klein and Madewell, told Business Insider.

But Jockey, the venerable U.S. underwear manufacturer, says women needed a new system, citing widespread complaints that A to D sizes aren't consistent across brands and that they factor in size, but not the shape, of breasts.

Approximately 65 % of U.S. women are size 14 and up, Eloquii's Mariah Chase notes, and the total apparel market is $ 110 billion.

What's worse is that the average size of US women - owned firms has not changed significantly in 17 years.

Specialising in women's fashion with a unique twist for women of any size, Trish M Fashions is destined to be a trendsetter in the fashion world

Christian Siriano's willingness to dress all types of women regardless of ethnicity, size or age has quickly made him a favorite of fashionistas, body positive supporters and diversity advocates alike.

«We buy for every type of customer: business women, stay - at - home moms, plus - size and even pregnant women.»

That pioneering approach inspired a new generation of founders from the Gilt ranks, including Zola, Flow, HQ Trivia and now CoEdition, a curated fashion marketplace for women size 10 and up, which launched in March.

Adding to this new information is some research conducted by Womenable way back in 2007, Mapping the Missing Middle: Determining the Desire and Dimensions of Second - Stage Women Business Owners, which not only raised the point that not enough policy and programmatic attention was being paid to established women - owned firms that had not yet cracked the million - dollar revenue barrier, but sized this population at between 16 % (if defined to include firms with employees or between $ 100,000 and $ 1 million in revenues) and fully 91 % (if having employees and revenues over $ 100,000 was not a criterion) of the entire women - owned business populaWomen Business Owners, which not only raised the point that not enough policy and programmatic attention was being paid to established women - owned firms that had not yet cracked the million - dollar revenue barrier, but sized this population at between 16 % (if defined to include firms with employees or between $ 100,000 and $ 1 million in revenues) and fully 91 % (if having employees and revenues over $ 100,000 was not a criterion) of the entire women - owned business populawomen - owned firms that had not yet cracked the million - dollar revenue barrier, but sized this population at between 16 % (if defined to include firms with employees or between $ 100,000 and $ 1 million in revenues) and fully 91 % (if having employees and revenues over $ 100,000 was not a criterion) of the entire women - owned business populawomen - owned business population.

Later in the hearing, Rep. Billy Long, R - Mo., presented a poster - sized photo of Diamond and Silk and asked Zuckerberg if he recognized the women.

Although white women between the ages of 25 and 44 are the most frequent customers of payday lenders, a look at the percentages shows that some groups bear much more of the brunt of payday lending relative to their population size.

Women of all ages, sizes, and walks of life come together at Pure Barre.

While she believes VCs are making a concerted effort to include women in their leadership, she says that the sheer size of the ecosystems and institutions with unconscious biases will make executing the necessary changes very difficult and slow.

the women entrepreneurs surveyed expect to increase the size of their workforces by 10.9 %, a rate that is 31 % higher than that of the men surveyed,

You must be watching lots of soaps where where women are stronger and smarter than men... However, in real life men are twice as strong as women and a woman would not have a chance of winning with comparatively trained man of her size.

So married women who want to limit the size of their families or have children more than a year apart are «tramps», kendall?

In contrast to this background of smooth planes in muted colors, giant screens occasionally lower from the ceilings to show scenes of catastrophe in high enough definition that they seem to Jeffrey «immediate and real, a woman sitting life - sized on a lopsided chair in a house collapsed in a mudslide.»

Comparing the sizes of the believer population and the sizes of the atheist population, I pray that the atheist women cease and desist from abortions.

Or a conplaint similar to the ones above, which either objectify the woman (commenting on her appearance, clothes, or even, yes the size of their breasts!)

For while we argue about stroller brands and family size, millions of women are engaged in a different kind of mommy war, fighting with every decision of every day for the very survival and future of their children.

People have the right to control the size of their families and neither you or anyone else can tell women they have to have babies.

For example, the omnipresence of extremely thin fashion models in American magazine ads gave rise to a demand for «large size» models: frankly heavy women for whom there are now special lines of designer fashions (though it is worth noting that this trend has not extended to men's clothing ads — nor has it shown up on television).

She loves connecting with the hearts of women through her popular blog and books like You're Already Amazing and You're Made for a God - Sized Dream.

That means abandoning one - size - fits - all attempts to address poverty and looking to the states, where a lot of the creativity in American government resides these days, for approaches that actually empower the poor, because they treat poor people as men and women with potential to be unleashed, not simply as clients to be maintained.