Word: ratio
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...qualifications of the B-school's female student body: "The profile of women is now more accurately mirroring the profile of the Harvard Business School population. But despite substantial improvement in women's qualifications, women continue to apply in fewer numbers than men. To equalize the 5 to 1 ratio would require a concerted recruiting effort--one it is not clear the Business School is willing to make...
...been only 17 years since the first women entered the two-year MBA program. Since then, the number of women among the 775 students admitted each year has increased steadily--going from 32 in 1970 to 178 in 1980. Still, the present ratio of nearly five men to every woman attending the school means that women continue to be an oddity within the ivy-covered walls. Business school officials say that until recently a shortage of qualified applicants limited the number of women who could be admitted. But this shortage was itself a result of discrimination. The qualifications looked...
...After all, if they are not done, the public gets the wrong perception of the President, that he is behind the walls of the West Wing of the White House and he does not want to meet the people. But if you look at it from a cost-benefit ratio of time spent, he ought to be spending his time on the business that just keeps flowing in and out of the Oval Office...
...male-female ratio of the advanced standing is lower than that in previous years, with women making up 27 per cent of the group...
...battleground states. There are more women than men in the group of undecided voters whose allegiance on Election Day may be crucial. And there are more potential women voters than men voters in the U.S. population (about 52%). Women tend to turn out to vote in the same ratio as men and their numbers could prove decisive in a close election, as this one is expected to be. Thus the battle for the bigger half is deadly serious...