Sentences with phrase «champions of women in»

The Greater Vancouver Board of Trade's Women's Leadership Circle is excited to launch its fourth annual Wendy McDonald Diversity Awards to increase the profile of outstanding women and champions of women in our community.

The Greater Vancouver Board of Trade's Women's Leadership Circle is excited to launch its second annual Wendy McDonald Awards in an effort to increase the profile of outstanding women and champions of women in our community.

Join us on the beautiful rooftop of Telus Garden to celebrate outstanding women and champions of women in our community.

She is a champion of women in business and has been profiled in numerous publications.

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It facilitates a range of events to champion women in leadership, create networks and connect prospective students to others.

Harford is a prominent diversity champion, both in the financial services sector and the wider business community, and served as the co-head of Citi Women and on the board of directors of The Forte Foundation, a U.S. nonprofit organization dedicated to increasing the number of women leaders in busiWomen and on the board of directors of The Forte Foundation, a U.S. nonprofit organization dedicated to increasing the number of women leaders in busiwomen leaders in business.

If the night had a specific theme, it was that women in business don't just need mentors and coaches, they need sponsors to be their advocates behind the scenes and champions in their workplace that set an example of their company's attitudes toward the empowerment of women.

Hosszu, five times a world champion but without a medal from three previous Olympics, demolished the world record by 2.07 seconds in the final of the women's 400 meters individual medley.

Queen Rania Al Abdullah of Jordan is renowned for championing education, public health, and women's rights in the Middle East and around the world.

Champions of entrepreneurship and advocates of diversity, sexual equality and work force empowerment, these ground - breaking women are making a big difference in business today.

The last of the year's four tennis Grand Slam tournaments crowns its champions this weekend and women's favorite Serena Williams is looking to make history by becoming the first woman to win all four Grand Slam events in the same calendar year since Steffi Graf in 1988.

Alevtyna (Alya) Titarenko was just 17 years old when she won the 1995 title of world champion in sport acrobatics for the Ukraine as half of a women's pairs team.

Men who believe in equality need to champion the idea of women in power and, more significantly, they need to model for other men that they are respectful of and comfortable with female leaders and female bosses.

The government - backed report from Lord Mervyn Davies, who has been championing gender equality in the boardroom, shows that FTSE 100 companies have exceeded the target of having 25 % women on their boards — more than doubling the number in 2011 when the target was set.

Of the four, Riyadh - based Lubna is the most visible: A regular at Davos, she gained attention in the West for her push to champion more women in big business, quite a task in her ultra-conservative homeland.

2014.06.19 RBC's Zabeen Hirji to receive 2014 Catalyst Canada Honour for championing women and minorities in business Zabeen is an unwavering leader and supporter of Diversity for growth and innovation, ensuring it remains an essential pillar of what RBC stands for...

Asked if she felt abortion defenders championed her rights and best interests in Roe v. Wade, she responded, «I firmly believe that the only «champions» of this whole situation are the women who have been lucky enough to not be aborted since Roe v. Wade was handed down.

While I have championed the cause of women in ministry through the years, I've run across an inordinate number of women pastors whose demeanor was less than appealing (see Sister Marie's comment above).

When women routinely win Nobel Prizes in physics, chemistry or medicine, when a woman becomes a world chess champion, when a woman conceives and develops a brand new computer chip that represents a significant advancement over quad cores, when a woman invents warp drive or phasers, when a woman solves an «insolvable» math problem, when a woman, while working with the Large Hadron Collider, discovers the now - hypothetical Higgs Boson to be an actual scalar subatomic particle, when a woman figures out how to pinpoint the exact location of an electron at any point in time, when a woman working for Merck or Pfizer develops a remedy for Alzheimer's disease, when a woman's baseball team can defeat the New York Yankees, when a woman can bench press six hundred pounds, run the 100 meter dash in under nine seconds or set a world record in the high jump, then the fairer sex will have made an advance or contribution unlike any it has made before.

We do not see that witness in the gold and glitter of Rome but rather in the quiet good works championed and performed by these women.

They have championed freeing the slaves in the South as well as women suffrage whereas atheism has given us champions of oppresion like Stalin, Pol Pot, Mao Tse Tung... among others

We Christians of the Third Millennium, guided by the Second Vatican Council and its great champions John Paul and Benedict, are graced to be witnessing a return of the papacy and episcopacy to the model of the age of the Fathers: boldly evangelical, passionately committed to mission, and with true humility inviting the men and women of our time to consider the proposal that truth is to be found in the person of Jesus Christ.

They are surprised because, as a self - described «liberated woman» who champions women in church leadership and an egalitarian interpretation of Scripture, I don't fit the perceived mold for the submissive wife.

In our efforts to restore the equality of women in the Church, it's so important to honor and thank those men who have consistently championed mutuality, using their influence and gifts to advance the partnership between men and women as we work together for the KingdoIn our efforts to restore the equality of women in the Church, it's so important to honor and thank those men who have consistently championed mutuality, using their influence and gifts to advance the partnership between men and women as we work together for the Kingdoin the Church, it's so important to honor and thank those men who have consistently championed mutuality, using their influence and gifts to advance the partnership between men and women as we work together for the Kingdom.

Although contemporary feminists may champion women's self - defense, few are anxious for women to engage in aggressive violence or to emulate male war - making as a way of proving women's equality.

When I noted to their champions that their psychological leanings seemed more like those of men than of women, I would get various replies, mostly to the effect that in making such judgments I was drawing on sexual stereotypes.

He was among the champions of women «s legal right to abortion in the 960s and 1970s.

Although he is a self - declared billionaire, Trump presented himself in the campaign as a champion of ordinary men and women victimized by the wealthy elite.

He upheld and championed priestly celibacy; re-affirmed and explained the importance of an all - male priesthood, while advancing the true dignity of woman in all other ways; issued a clear declaration on sexual ethics, and a decree against abortion and on behalf of life.

In a world dominated by men, this year's overall champion was Bojana Mirkovic, a woman with 20 years of experience in the barbecue tradIn a world dominated by men, this year's overall champion was Bojana Mirkovic, a woman with 20 years of experience in the barbecue tradin the barbecue trade.

The scholarship honors the legacy of Phyllis Shapiro Sewell, a former Sysco board member and champion of women's rights in the workplace.

Keeping with the beloved tradition the House started in 2011, Moët & Chandon presented both men's and women's champions with breathtaking 6 - litre large format bottles of Moët & Chandon Brut Imperial adorned with the logo of the 2013 US Open and their names in radiant crystal at the end of their matches.

She was forced into tie - breaker sets by Valerie Ziegenfuss and Lesley Hunt, only to find second - seeded King waiting in the semis — Billie Jean King, 30, president of the Women's Tennis Association, player / coach of the Philadelphia Freedoms, magazine publisher, author and Forest Hills champion.

In that battle of bigmouths under the big Dome, Bobby Riggs should beat the champion of Women's Lib, Billie Jean King, and hustle off with $ 200,000.

Among the women, defending champion Steffi Graf, recently in the throes of an injury - induced slump and seeded second at the French behind Martina Hingis, rallied last week with a win in Strasbourg.

MILEPOSTS — REINSTATED: HUTOHERSON FLYING QUEENS of Wayland Baptist College, Plain view, Texas, five times national AAU women's basketball champions, when local businessmen agreed to underwrite scholarship and team expenses, after college had disbanded team in January for financial reasons.

If you want to have a group of women / tag teams touring only Raw shows and a group of women / tag teams touring on Smackdown shows, that's fine; but whoever is the champion and currently in a feud with a champion should appear on both shows.

By winning the women's title at the tender age of 16, she is now the youngest champion — male or female — in the history of the U.S. Open.

In the 800 - meter women's finals, the two favorites, current national and defending North American champ Michelle Conroy of St. Paul, Minn. and Peggy Hartrich, former national champion, from St. Louis, Mo., were both disqualified — Conroy for charging, Hartrich for pushing.

By 1972, when she was 15 and the Czech women's champion, she was competing regularly in Europe and North America and beginning to chafe at the restraints imposed by the Czech Tennis Federation, which controlled players by means of its power to rescind their travel permits.

Juve clearly took heed of the promise made by the two women and it is possible they took extra encouragement from their words, going on to beat Monaco 1 - 0 at Juventus Stadium in their Champions League quarter final first leg.

TENNIS — Wimbledon champion BILLIE JEAN KING of Berkeley, Calif. gained her third straight National women's indoor title by defeating Rosemary Casals 6 - 3, 9 - 7 in the finals in Winchester, Mass..

Saturday saw the champion of the women's singles bracket crowned as Li Na bested Dominika Cibulkova in straight sets, 7 - 6, 6 - 0.

Why you should care: Naomi was the only face champion in WWE for months and months, and has managed to hold on to her title despite the entire division gunning for her and the existence of the first - ever women's Money in the Bank briefcase holder, Carmella.

# 42 Leah Marie Rawls Atkins BIRMINGHAM Three - time U.S. waterskiing champion, and world champion in 1953; first woman inducted into Alabama Sports Hall of Fame.

Kostelic (below) won four Olympic gold medals, was a three - time World Cup overall champion and is one of only three women to win events in all five Alpine disciplines.

Their Sylvia Pankhursts were their great golfers who could not fail to be imitated by other women and to be admired by the men: Mrs. Dorothy Campbell Hurd, a Scots girl, who (circa 1910) won the Scottish, British, Canadian and American championships; Cecil Leitch, the first woman who decided that there was no reason a woman shouldn't attack the ball forcefully like the best men players, and who did so with such a natural dash; the incomparable Joyce Wethered, who succeeded Miss Leitch after World War I as the queen of the British links and is remembered as the most consummate of women stylists; Glenna Collett, the pertinacious girl from Providence, the first great American champion, who won our national title six times between 1922 and 1935, and in more recent years such superb players as Patty Berg and the majestic Babe Didrikson Zaharias who «made» women's professional golf after she had become in 1947 the first American to win the British Ladies Championship.

Today, lots of coaches wish they'd paid more attention because Oberholser is the top - ranked men's college golfer in the country and Moodie is No. 2 among the women, second only to defending NCAA champion Marisa Baena of Arizona.

We learned more than «Charlotte is still champion» and «Asuka didn't win,» though: the primary takeaway here is that Charlotte Flair is clearly positioned at the top of the mountain of women's wrestlers in WWE, with no equal out there to challenge her — not even Asuka.

Most of them will be competing, including the defending champion Anne Quast (see cover) who could be the ninth woman in the 65 - year history of the event to win the title twice or more in a row; and Judy Frank Jablow (page 36) who, having at first announced that marriage and career would prevent her from participating this year, proved that women are still women, even if they are golfers, by changing her mind.