Focusing on women in those powerful, monied institutions and the troubles, challenges and opportunities available to them may seem self-indulgent.
Many marketing gurus who rely on the 80% figure cite the work of Marti Barletta, a longtime marketing consultant focusing on women.
The company, which started out focusing on women but now has a wide range of sites, also has more than 1, 000 brand advertisers and more than 85 million monthly unique visitors in the U.S. and more than 200 million worldwide.
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In March, Ask announced it was laying off around 8% of its employees and changing strategies, focusing on women above 30 and searchers looking for answers to questions about health and entertainment, who it said made up a disproportionately large part of its user base.
The Komen organization has been focusing on letting women know what they should be looking for, rather than the procedure itself, said Susan Brown, director of health education.
Meanwhile, Chief Minister Mayawati has announced a month-long campaign focusing on crimes against women.
Companies such as Motif Investing, which encourages clients to make investments based on social trends and themes, or Betterment, which keeps clients on track with meeting their goals, are reaching out to women by focusing on their personal interests and long-term goals.
Focusing on face time can disadvantage women, especially mothers, in other ways.
The day which will be marked by speeches and debates by different stakeholders is focusing on the current situation of women and the media in Lesotho.
Tracy Britt, 28, grew up on a farm in Kansas and struck up a relationship with Warren Buffett while at Harvard, contacting him out of the blue to see if he would meet with a non-profit group she co-founded focusing on investment education for undergraduate women.
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This past year, V DAY founder, Eve Ensler, work-shopped her new play in our Theater Lab with professional actors alongside our undergrad and grad students focusing on the environment and issues for women and girls.
She chose the retreat because it focused on helping women have a healthy relationship with food rather than focusing solely on losing weight.
The Crawford Taylor Foundation, a family fund, supports animal welfare, community development, the environment and services for women and youths, mainly focusing on organizations in the St.
As with the women's World Cup, it is focusing on grassroots ticket campaigns, bringing in families, schools and the growing numbers of amateur senior players.
We are focusing in now on the importance of January 26th, and I believe that women are deciding based on what the issues are and what's important to them and what they want their children to see, and race and gender have become secondary, in my opinion, in spite of what the media wants us to believe.
An ongoing programme with UNESCO is training 10, 000 school principals in Kenya, Ghana, and India, while a second is focusing on training teachers in Lesotho and Kenya to improve STEM education for girls and women.
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She actively worked to reshape the American international agenda for the 21st century, focusing on emerging powers, new technologies and populations -- like the role of women worldwide -- long neglected by the U.S. foreign policy establishment.
Goldman Sachs has found that it is women who are redefining markets and creating growth by focusing their spending power on purchases such as food, health care, education, clothing, consumer durables, and financial services.
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Young Chinese women are much heavier users of digital media than their male counterparts, focusing heavily on shopping activities.
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While drug firms such as Pfizer (nyse: PFE - news - people ) and Lilly are focusing on drugs for diabetes and heart disease, Wyeth's Poussot touts a new antibiotic and two women's health drugs.
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