Sentences with phrase «pioneering role of women»

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The Southwest Airlines pilot being lauded as a hero in a harrowing emergency landing after a passenger was partially blown out of the jet's damaged fuselage is also being hailed for her pioneering role in a career where she has been one of the few women at the controls.

The FEBS / EMBO award is the latest of a string of prizes recognizing Robinson's pioneering use of mass spectrometry for the study of protein complexes and her role as a mentor to women scientists.

Feminist issues will be heavily featured at Toronto, via Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris» «Battle of the Sexes,» about the run - up to the famous Billie Jean King - Bobby Riggs exhibition match, with Emma Stone as the tennis pioneer; «Mary Shelley,» Haifaa Al Mansour's look at the personal and creative life of the great English writer starring Elle Fanning in the title role; and Susanna White's «Woman Walks Ahead,» in which Jessica Chastain stars as Catherine Weldon, Sitting Bull's chief advisor.

This time out, this story of a claim jumper teaming up with a pioneer woman to transport three mentally unstable women from Nebraska to Iowa has such an insanely heavyweight cast that, assuming it's ready (and it shot all the way back in May of 2013) we can safely assume it's heading for the Croisette, and it seems likely to offer the kind of attention - grabbing roles to its principals that may well make it part of the awards conversation beyond Cannes too.

She is a pioneer and a role model, and I particularly admire her as a woman of color in a leadership role in education.

San Francisco's Jessica Silverman Gallery announced today that it now represents Judy Chicago, the feminist - art pioneer whose work deals with female sexuality and the role of women throughout art history.

Yoko Ono: One Woman Show, 1960 --- 971 examines the beginnings of Ono's career, demonstrating her pioneering role in visual art, performance and music during the 1960s and early 1970s.

Yoko Ono: One Woman Show, 1960 — 1971 examines the beginnings of Ono's career, demonstrating her pioneering role in visual art, performance and music during the 1960s and early 1970s.

This latest exhibition from NMWA considers women artists» pioneering role in the medium but also emphasizes the new, inventive processes that sustain their position at the forefront of art's merger with moving imagery.

This edited version of a mini-retrospective that was previously on view at Guild Hall in East Hampton as well as a trio of college art museums is a vibrant reminder of the major role played by Mercedes Matter, who — along with her friends Elaine de Kooning and Lee Krasner — was one of the pioneer women in the Artists» Club and the WPA movement.

These works reveal Bourgeois's role as a member of a pioneering generation of women who broke down many of the barriers in the overwhelmingly masculine artistic circles of the time.

Overlooked in her discussion of Sherman is the recognition that her dressing - up, role - playing, selfie - photo schtick was already old when she revved it up in the late 1970s, and that, for some time, such pioneering feminist artists as Martha Wilson, Martha Rosler, Suzy Lake and others had already been examining women's society - defined roles and images through photographic, performance - based artistic projects.

Beyond all the innovations that Realtors have pioneered, and the critical role they play in the process of property transactions, just think of the character these men and women must have to be in this business.

Meryl: Margaret was a pioneer Following the news that Margaret Thatcher has passed away at age 87 following a stroke, Meryl Streep, who portrayed her in The Iron Lady, released a statement: «Margaret Thatcher was a pioneer, willingly or unwillingly, for the role of women in -LSB-...]