Sentences with phrase «about powerful women»

Intelligent Life — More Than a Big Meringue — Simon Hopkinson — While we're on about powerful women (Ruth, Emma, London...), we might as well take a look at Anna — Pavlova, that is, the celebrated ballerina.

Bring a blanket and gather in the amphitheater near Wangechi Mutu's sculpture Water Woman to watch a selection of films about powerful women and girls living near and under the water.

Though Marvel's Black Panther is about the ascension of a new Wakandan king, the film is also largely about the powerful women around T'Challa who are running the show.

Phoebe Waller - Bridge, Sandra Oh, and Jodie Comer of Killing Eve discuss the #MeToo movement, equal pay, working on a show about powerful women, and their past experiences in the entertainment industry.

However, the employment minister, who was promoted to attend Cabinet meetings in yesterday's reshuffle, said: «I think it's great news that people are talking about powerful women walking up in to Downing Street.

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One gets the feeling that the filmmakers were excited to open this film on the heels of a Hillary Clinton victory... a story about a powerful woman, laser - focused on her mission to push through gun - control legislation.

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Code for America co-founder Catherine Bracy fired off a series of tweets saying Silicon Valley should disown Thiel, urging men and women of all races not accept jobs at Facebook until he's off the board, and saying anyone who defends him is sending a powerful message about their values.

• Speaking of Time's Up... Attorney Tina Tchen, who Bloomberg describes as «arguably the most well - connected person working in women's rights today, thanks to her six years as an assistant to President Barack Obama and as first lady Michelle Obama's chief of staff,» talks about why it was so important that Time's Up include a legal defense fund: «The fastest way to make sure that someone isn't getting bullied by a lawyer for someone rich and powerful is to make sure that person has a lawyer, too.»

The impulse towards those acts, and the beliefs about women that underlie them, probably predate a powerful person's rise.

Feden, whose powerful closing statement «sent a jolt through the courtroom,» hopes that Cosby's guilty verdict will «educate people about the courage it still takes women to come forward.»

Under Armour Chief Executive Kevin Plank said they are «particularly excited» about a global woman's campaign that features ballerina Misty Copeland and model Gisele Bündchen, which he claims «ignited a powerful new dialogue with our female consumer as we begin to bridge the gap between female athletes and athletic females.»

A version of this post appeared in the June 1st edition of The Broadsheet, Fortune's newsletter about the world's most powerful women.

At Fortune's 2013 Most Powerful Women Summit, Cool said she spends the majority of her time reading and visiting Berkshire's operating companies, learning about their inner workings and occasionally getting involved in the operations — a role that sometimes includes the unpleasant task of firing management.

Tyra Banks and Chelsea Handler, who met Buffett at the Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit, Tweeted their regards and urged their millions of followers to read his Fortune essay about Women.

At Fortune's Most Powerful Women Summit, Warren Buffett made a big claim about Hillary Clinton's presidential chances in 2016.

Millennials will eventually comprise 70 % of the U.S. workforce, said Jacqueline Hinman, CEO of CH2M, speaking on a panel about the future of cities Tuesday at Fortune «s Most Powerful Women summit in Washington D.C..

After more than three dozen women have come forward to accuse Hollywood film producer Harvey Weinstein of sexual assault and harassment, George Clooney and Matt Damon have spoken out about the powerful Miramax head who helped launch their careers.

Rounding out the show are thoughts from some powerful women about disruption in the C - suite.

When confronted with a powerful woman, many men apparently feel as if they've been (or are about to be) castrated.

Panelists from three of today's most innovative companies spoke about building a culture of big ideas at Fortune's Most Powerful Women summit.

In her comments at the «Fortune Most Powerful Women Evening With...» dinner in New York City Tuesday night McKinsey & Co. «s Joanna Barsh was talking about the importance of corporate women leaders helping middle manaWomen Evening With...» dinner in New York City Tuesday night McKinsey & Co. «s Joanna Barsh was talking about the importance of corporate women leaders helping middle manawomen leaders helping middle managers.

And I said, «This is a conference that talks about «really powerful women who've done great things «and celebrates them.»

The thing about it that was so devastating is a year earlier, not a year, but not long earlier, I can't remember exactly the timing, but I had taken her with me to Fortune Most Powerful Women Conference, and she said to me on the train ride down there, «What is this thing we're going to?»

I thought about the loss that my child had suffered without even knowing it of going from thinking she was at five, or four at the time, a Fortune Most Powerful Woman, to asking me what a bimbo is.

When: April 13 - 14, 2016; Where: New York City, NY Why: Now in its sixth year, the Women Entrepreneurs Festival brings together powerful women eaders and innovators from across the globe for two intense days of networking and discussions about how to be a successful female entrepreWomen Entrepreneurs Festival brings together powerful women eaders and innovators from across the globe for two intense days of networking and discussions about how to be a successful female entreprewomen eaders and innovators from across the globe for two intense days of networking and discussions about how to be a successful female entrepreneur.

Read about the 2015 Most Powerful Women Summit on Fortune.com/mpw.

Entrepreneur Vinita Gupta wrote a powerful essay in 2010, about her experience balancing her pregnancy with her efforts to raise capital and the dilemma she has seen other women face.

McDougal also says that the women who have come forward to report abuse by powerful men helped inspire her to talk about her situation, to the extent that she has.

But the presidency is too important and powerful a position simply not to worry about it, especially given the context: Trump has been accused by more than a dozen women of sexual misconduct, and has bragged about groping women without their permission.

At their recent Investing in Women: Grant Award Breakfast, guests learned some powerful facts about how investing in women delivers a strong reWomen: Grant Award Breakfast, guests learned some powerful facts about how investing in women delivers a strong rewomen delivers a strong return.

It seemed powerful to me somehow — the image of a pregnant woman preaching about the Incarnation — and i got to thinking of all the women I needed to see in my life in order to step out into freedom and the post grew out of that.

This week, in light of even more women coming forward with stories of being abused and harassed by powerful men, she tweeted this: «If you want to know how Jesus felt about women & treated women, read the Gospels.

They also showcase stories of Indigenous women and cultural knowledge through their products and facilitate a powerful and positive narrative about Indigenous women and their cultures.

My friend, Grace Biskie, wrote a powerful all - in essay about her experience as a black woman at STORY.

Did we really just elect to the world's most powerful office an orange monster who brags about groping women's genitals and warmly welcomes the praise of the KKK?

Women who eat about two servings of strawberries per week experienced a less mental decline over time than peers who went without eating the powerful berries, research published in the Annals of Neurology found.

The most common complaint about this pump is that it has less powerful suction than other pumps, but this may not be a problem for everyone, as some women don't require a lot of suction to produce a lot of milk.

Heres the post about the most powerful woman in utah midwifery spinning the same «baby was fine then suddenly the heart stopped» bs to a class of aspiring doulas.

Women can feel deep and powerful emotions about their birth stories.

A one - woman show by Celeste Billhartz of powerful images, narratives and music about the «unwed mothers» of past generations who were forced to surrender their babies to adoption..

«Pregnancy, childbirth and lactation are very powerful primers in women to worry about their child's survival.

The New York Times and The New Yorker magazine won the Pulitzer Prize for public service for their reporting on sexual harassment that ushered in a reckoning about the treatment of women by powerful men in the uppermost ranks of Hollywood, politics, media and technology.

His success sends a message that you can boast about abusing women's bodily integrity and still become the most powerful man in the world.

Grace, 50, was appointed leader of the powerful ZANU - PF women's wing last year and led a vicious campaign that brought about the expulsion of Mugabe's deputy president and possible successor Joice Mujuru.

«In her short time here, the Fearless Girl has fueled powerful conversations about women in leadership and inspired so many,» the mayor said in a written statement.

First was the cold - blooded murder of Gloria Okon, an international drug courier, that was working for powerful government officials and men and women in high places and that was about to spill the beans when General Muhammadu Buhari was in power in 1985.

Anyway, the fact that Moya is making moves now to primary a woman who is nominally very powerful, indicates some machinations on the part of the County organization, and likely says a thing or two about the Speaker race.

The two writers pointed out that after The New York Times and The New Yorker shared the Pulitzer Prize gold medal for public service for their stories on Weinstein and sexual assault, «Schneiderman issued a congratulatory tweet, praising «the brave women and men who spoke up about the sexual harassment they had endured at the hands of powerful men.»

Moira Buffini's comedy speculates on that most provocative of questions: What did the world's most powerful women talk about behind closed palace doors?