Sentences with phrase «about women in leadership»

What I found was as I started to engage in Twitter communities, that there was a whole body of work round about women in leadership.

An international debate was soon triggered about women in leadership followed by an international conference.

Farah Anwar Pandith — spring 2014 fellow at the Institute of Politics at Harvard University and former special representative to Muslim communities for the U.S. Department of State — spoke from a global perspective about women in leadership and the critical importance of youth development.http: / /...

«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.

It bugs me that the same criteria often used to apply universality to Paul's instructions about women in leadership in 1 Timothy 2:12 (appeal to creation, headship, etc.) exist also in the Corinthians 11 passage about head coverings, but are rarely used to support continuation of that practice.

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According to a study conducted by Baloonr, about 35 percent of respondents said the best way to addressing the issue in the startup tech worldis to put more women in leadership roles.

If the leaders in attendance are any indication of future focus on the promotion of women to leadership spots, then there's plenty to be optimistic about.

«No matter what companies assume about women, you will often see women lead with courage in crisis,» says Kate Bensen, the president and CEO of the women leadership group The Chicago Network.

Currently they release information on the number of women in their total workforce and in their leadership roles and publish more detailed information about gender balance internally, but are still working with lawyers to navigate the stricter data collection and protection measures in Germany, where the company is based, and other countries where their employees work, SAP's chief diversity and inclusion officer Anka Wittenberg told Fortune.

«One of the things that I think is remarkable about black women is that even with all of the headwinds that we face in terms of advancing ourselves, there is this incredible appetite for learning and preparing ourselves for leadership,» says Susan Reid, Morgan Stanley's global head of diversity and inclusion.

In reviews, talk openly about gender stereotypes and make sure women are always considered for leadership positions and personal development opportunities, and recognized for their contributions.

So here you are: 60 about strategy and leadership, written by women and listed in no particular order so as not to overemphasize any one of them.

Coles said that you want to have men involved in initiatives to recruit women and foster leadership among female colleagues in the same way you want white employees involved in initiatives about racial diversity.

In my domain of business, strategy, and leadership I've also noticed a gap in women authors and I thought it was worthwhile to compile a list that was not books targeted at women but books about strategy and leadership that happen to be written by womeIn my domain of business, strategy, and leadership I've also noticed a gap in women authors and I thought it was worthwhile to compile a list that was not books targeted at women but books about strategy and leadership that happen to be written by womein women authors and I thought it was worthwhile to compile a list that was not books targeted at women but books about strategy and leadership that happen to be written by women.

I spoke to three successful CEO moms about what drew them to leadership; their parenting and business challenges; and their advice for the hundreds of thousands of women who are likely to start new businesses in 2014.

As president and CEO of Catalyst, an organization committed to expanding opportunities for women and business worldwide, I'm often asked why there are still so few women in senior leadership roles — like Meg Whitman, president and CEO of Hewlett Packard — and what forward - thinking men and women can do about it.

Moving to 8 percent over 11 years is still not something to brag about when it comes to expanding opportunities for women in leadership roles.

But here we have one rule about corporate diversity that's so vaguely written as to be nearly meaningless for increasing the number of women in leadership.

We just talked about it on Friday with a CEO who has a couple of women on the company's leadership team and basically said, look, we have four men on the board who look alike — white and in their 30s and 40s.

The thing that makes me uneasy about having elected officails from certain religious groups is that, being female, I'm not sure a person who suscribes to a set of beliefs that does not permit a woman to occupy the highest leadership posts in the organization is going to promote policies in my best interests.

We returned and for a short time it seemed normal, but then strange things began to occur again behind thr scenes with one controlling narcissist woman whose family is friends with the pastor (so if she doesn't like you or feels threatened by you in any way plants bugs in his ear to affect leadership choices and assignments and negative treatment / assumptions about anyone she pleases).

What is less clear to me is why complementarians like Keller insist that that 1 Timothy 2:12 is a part of biblical womanhood, but Acts 2 is not; why the presence of twelve male disciples implies restrictions on female leadership, but the presence of the apostle Junia is inconsequential; why the Greco - Roman household codes represent God's ideal familial structure for husbands and wives, but not for slaves and masters; why the apostle Paul's instructions to Timothy about Ephesian women teaching in the church are universally applicable, but his instructions to Corinthian women regarding head coverings are culturally conditioned (even though Paul uses the same line of argumentation — appealing the creation narrative — to support both); why the poetry of Proverbs 31 is often applied prescriptively and other poetry is not; why Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob represent the supremecy of male leadership while Deborah and Huldah and Miriam are mere exceptions to the rule; why «wives submit to your husbands» carries more weight than «submit one to another»; why the laws of the Old Testament are treated as irrelevant in one moment, but important enough to display in public courthouses and schools the next; why a feminist reading of the text represents a capitulation to culture but a reading that turns an ancient Near Eastern text into an apologetic for the post-Industrial Revolution nuclear family is not; why the curse of Genesis 3 has the final word on gender relationships rather than the new creation that began at the resurrection.

But — nobody in that church leadership group said anything at all after the comment about men being more reasonable than women and women being emotional and not rational.»

I suspected I'd get a little pushback from fellow Christians who hold a complementarian perspective on gender, (a position that requires women to submit to male leadership in the home and church, and often appeals to «biblical womanhood» for support), but I had hoped — perhaps naively — that the book would generate a vigorous, healthy debate about things like the Greco Roman household codes found in the epistles of Peter and Paul, about the meaning of the Hebrew word ezer or the Greek word for deacon, about the Paul's line of argumentation in 1 Timothy 2 and 1 Corinthians 11, about our hermeneutical presuppositions and how they are influenced by our own culture, and about what we really mean when we talk about «biblical womanhood» — all issues I address quite seriously in the book, but which have yet to be engaged by complementarian critics.

Myth # 4: Women must learn to be indirect about their opinions and desires so as not to upset a man's sense of «leadership» in the home.

I'll start: I feel most at home in a church that 1) takes its mission to care for the poor and marginalized seriously, 2) does not make assumptions about its congregation's political positions nor emphasizes political action to begin with, 3) speaks of Scripture in terms of its ability to «equip us for every good work,» 4) embraces diversity (theologically, ethnically, etc.) and allows women to assume leadership positions.

My hope and prayer is that by having and sharing these conversations, men and women in leadership will realize that the 25 - plus singles are truly a neglected demographic within the Church — and then do something about it.

I can have differences of opinion with my friends about health care or global warming or eschatology or women in church leadership without taking it personally or holding a grudge.

What does that say about his leadership skills when the Congressmen and women in his own party voted 80 % to censure their leader.

But what about men like my husband, or my pastor, or Scot, who are not threatened by the intelligent, thoughtful contributions of women in leadership?

Though the vast majority of Americans and evangelicals are comfortable with women serving in leadership roles in businesses and in political capacities, opinions about ministry are very different.

Time to get serious about placing women at the alter so we can have confidence in our leadership being for ALL.

Whether he's writing about politics, Pentecostal spirituality, or women in leadership, Jonathan always writes with wisdom, conviction, and grace.

Again, the point I would make about Gal 3:28 is not to see that as being about an argument for «equality» (for example women in leadership) but that it is possible to be part of the body of Christ for everyone and that you don't have to be male / Jew / free for that.

In addition to that I would add that when one begins to think thoroughly about the idea that women should not teach scripture most (if not all) churches will have some sort of gaping hole that they have incorporated into their belief regarding this that has absolutely no scriptural foundation — not to mention they typically fail to confront the contradictions in scripture regarding women in leadershiIn addition to that I would add that when one begins to think thoroughly about the idea that women should not teach scripture most (if not all) churches will have some sort of gaping hole that they have incorporated into their belief regarding this that has absolutely no scriptural foundation — not to mention they typically fail to confront the contradictions in scripture regarding women in leadershiin scripture regarding women in leadershiin leadership.

They say, «The Bible is very clear that women are not supposed to be in leadership and that's what it's about.

Our last conversation about William Webb's Slaves, Women, and Homosexuals certainly generated a lot of responses, particularly concerning the role of women in church leadership, which means the post accomplished its purposes of highlighting the challenges of applying the teachings of Scripture in today's culWomen, and Homosexuals certainly generated a lot of responses, particularly concerning the role of women in church leadership, which means the post accomplished its purposes of highlighting the challenges of applying the teachings of Scripture in today's culwomen in church leadership, which means the post accomplished its purposes of highlighting the challenges of applying the teachings of Scripture in today's culture.

Yes, she would step up to the plate if no men were available but if a Godly man was standing in the sanctuary and he gave over leadership of the church to a woman???? No doubt about it, we both do not believe that God intended for women to be preachers, or priestesses, or leaders in the church except for tending to the women and the children.

And whatever «form» of church one attends (small group, house, small local body, mega-church) has some form of leadership (some good, some not - sThe biblical issue isn't, in my opinion, about whether women can teach in a church — it is the issue of qualifications for elders.

I'm guessing there are plenty of women out there who could relate similar stories about what it's like to be a minority in the office, board room, or church leadership team.

I don't necessarily ascribe to the belief that God «wrote the Bible,» and I do believe, as I think you illustrated in a post about women in church leadership, that much of it was written in a specific time to specific people — therefore, when dealing with the Old Testament, we have to keep in mind the times in which it was written and by whom.

By ignoring the strong leadership roles that women like Deborah and Phoebe and Priscilla played in the Bible (what McKnight calls WDWD passages) because of what Paul said to specific churches about silencing means reverting to our fallen state rather than our new creation state.

They have done everything in their power to make men and women feel guilty about having sex with each other, while the leadership was having homosexual relations behind closed doors.

When I asked women with leadership gifting about their leading, the answer came back that thet wanted to be a second in command, not to have the responsibility of being the main leader.

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They include issues about the importance of breastfeeding and about women in the workplace; issues, which we had all hoped would become legacy issues, about prejudice and discrimination; and important issues about geographic variation and inequality, including the importance of cultural leadership in changing attitudes.

While that is certainly possible (I have a small bet on her) Labour has yet to ever pick a woman over a man in a leadership contest and there is little evidence that is about to change.

A damaging row over grammar schools policy, unease among the grassroots about the leadership's efforts to introduce more women and ethnic minority parliamentary candidates and Gordon Brown's self - assured performance as Prime Minister in the summer of 2007 imperilled the Tory recovery.

Bennet's election raises questions about the effectiveness of the Green party's sex equality rules, which insist on a gender divide between the deputy leadership and leadership roles as a way to boost the prominence of women in the party.

Several women, including Winger, Cloninger and Tatum, will also be among those at Monday's pre-dinner event at Christie's Auction House in Rockefeller Plaza performing in a piece that Bennett created where women, standing on ladders, share stories about the importance of female leadership.