Sentences with phrase «few female role models»

There were, she says, very few female role models, and she experienced a strong sense of not being able to do what she wanted.

Secondary school represents a long geographical as well as psychological distance for girls...» It adds a lack of female teachers and a reluctance of qualified educators to work in remote schools means there are few female role models.

In her autobiography, Graham talked about how few female role models she had in the business world and how timid she was when she initially took charge of the Post in 1963, after her husband Philip's shocking death by suicide.

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As a young person, I had few female academic role models; as a professional, I anticipate working toward developing mentoring programmes to help foster students» interest in STEM fields at an early age.

Freida Pinto Pinto was a model and television host who had done no acting apart from a few school plays when, after her first six months of auditioning, she landed the role of a lifetime — the female lead in Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire which went on to win Best Picture at the 2009 Academy Awards.

When I started practicing, way back in the last century, there were very few female lawyers, meaning that my role models were mostly male.