Sentences with phrase «few women serve»

About 100 Boardlist candidates (some of whom already sit on not - for - profit, for - profit, or advisory boards, and the vast majority of whom live in the U.S.) were asked a number of questions about their experiences in business, and also about the fact that so few women serve on corporate boards.

Not exact matches

«Ten years ago, we were at 16 [women in the Senate] and even 20 years ago we had fewer than 10 women serving in the Senate,» she said.

I've served on several boards and in each case I've been one of just a few women in the room.

She is a director of the Diamond Foundation and has served on the boards of many organizations such as Vancouver Foundation, United Way, YWCA, and the BC Women's Hospital, to name a few.

«The Smearing of Nikki Haley»: Michael Wolff's insinuation that Nikki Haley had an affair with President Trump should serve as an important reminder: «Women, still, have relatively few ways to ascend; there are so many ways, though — still — for them to be brought down again.»

I lean towards the third view... but I admit it is the most difficult of the three views... Christ's priorities appear to be «love in motion» flowing in almost unpredictable directions as dictated by the greatest need: — He heals a slave rather than rebukes slavery; — He heals a man at a pool, then leads the man to belief, then says «cease from sinning»; — He heals many others and says «go and sin no more» to but a few; — He shares money with the poor but establishes no long - term aid; — He touches lepers; He converses with seeking Pharisees; He debates with other Pharisees; He lives with Samaritan outcasts for two days; — He acknowledges the five «marriages» of the Samaritan woman as «marriages»... and then remarks about her current co-habitation... but then moves to higher priorities; — He seems so very focused on internal holiness and not on external holiness; — He violates the Sabbath; He says He is Lord of the Sabbath; He even says that the Sabbath was created to assist man, rather than man created to serve the Sabbath... thus turning the entire concept of the Law into one of assistance rather than being chained to obedience; — He insists on impartiality in the way we bless others, even if we call them «evil» or «good».

Minister for Faith and Communities Baroness Warsi told Premier's News Hour she thinks the women appointed to cabinet have earned their new positions, she said: «Liz Truss, who've I've known for many years Nicky Morgan, Esther McVey; phenomenally talented women who quite rightly should be in cabinet, and it was right that they've built up their experience over the last few years since being elected and now they're going to serve at the top table.»

A powerfully built German, Lisicki serves harder than any woman — and all but a few men — at 124 mph and hits a penetrating ball from both wings.

I can only hope that our Constitution and the principles it stands for is still strong enough to reject blatant violations of human rights and threats to a woman's bodily integrity... take few minutes to remind your elected officials & representatives of their obligations to the people they serve!

«Thousands of men and women voluntarily put their uniforms on every day to protect and serve our communities in a capacity no other could, even when there are very few willing to stand up for them.

«I'm running for the State Senate because the 26th District deserves someone who knows how to get things done, and because I'm appalled by how few women currently serve in the New York State Senate,» Naples said in a statement.

Bharara, who couldn't be reached for comment, is not seeking to be appointed by the Legislature to serve out the last few months of Eric Schneiderman's term after the disgraced attorney general quit last week in the wake of a New Yorker magazine report that he physically abused four women.

As noted earlier, there are fewer high - ranking women faculty members at academic medical centers, so finding established women physician researchers to serve as mentors can be difficult.

«Using online health forums to serve underserved communities: Researchers find few people over 65 use online health forums, while women use sites to talk about conditions and men prefer to talk about health news.»

Today, the women's clinic serves 12,000 women annually and plans to double that number within a few years.

One study of more than 40,000 postmenopausal women found that women who consumed 4 - 7 servings a week of whole grains had a 31 % lower risk of dying from causes other than cancer or heart disease when compared with women who had few or no whole grains in their diet.

Restrictive laws in Texas have forced so many clinic closings that fewer than 20 remain to serve 5.4 million women of reproductive age.

Ice cream Women who consume at least one daily serving of whole milk are more than 50 % less likely to experience infertility than women who consume fewer than one serving of whole milk per week, according to a 2007 Harvard sWomen who consume at least one daily serving of whole milk are more than 50 % less likely to experience infertility than women who consume fewer than one serving of whole milk per week, according to a 2007 Harvard swomen who consume fewer than one serving of whole milk per week, according to a 2007 Harvard study.

Consuming moderate amounts (a few servings a week) of traditionally prepared, unprocessed soy in non-GMO form may offer health benefits to women with PCOS who do not have thyroid disorders.

I have a few questions regarding the safe intake levels of soy: Do the current «safe» limits (3 - 5 servings) for soy products extend to women with endometriosis?

She not only served as team captain of the first American Women's Everest Expedition, but she also climbed the highest peak on each continent and skied to both the North and South Poles — a feat known as the Adventure Grand Slam, which fewer than forty people in the world have achieved.

Some of you, if not all of you, know that I volunteer and serve a few times a month at the North Carolina Correctional Institute for Women in Raleigh, North Carolina with my church newhope Church.

Only a very, very small percentage of Thai girls have the courage and desire to marry with foreign gentlemen and my job (my work) is to serve those few courageous thai women as professionally as possible and with the respect and the DIGNITY that proper Thai ladies and Asian ladies deserve.

As we watch young African - American characters — and a few young white women, too — mistreated and / or killed in scenes that go on and on and on, it's hard not to wonder whether Bigelow (and the material) would have been better served by not teaming up with her usual (white) screenwriter, Mark Boal (who also wrote The Hurt Locker and Zero Dark Thirty), just to bring in the perspective of actual people of color, rather than that of white liberal guilt.

In the late 1970s Woody Allen served up the essential New York movie (and he's made a few) with this wistful, black - and - white story of a nervy over-thinker (Allen, of course) who steps out with a much younger woman (Mariel Hemingway) before falling in love with a married friend's secret girlfriend (Diane Keaton).

«RBG»: Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 85, has served on the Supreme Court for 25 years, helping hold the line on women's rights and, during the few years she was the court's only female member, offering scorching rebuttals.

«The toll of these obligations is heavier on women and faculty of color who, given their fewer numbers at this rank (in many disciplines), are asked to serve more, advise more, show up more — and not just for their department and the university, but for their discipline, too,» Mathews writes.

Becoming a teacher served as a vehicle for social mobility for the individual, opening up higher education for women and African - Americans at a time when few other occupations were open to them.

By 1930 (except in some particulars in a very few backward states) women had been given equal legal rights with men to vote, to hold office, to serve on juries, to control their own property, and to be guardians of their own children.

In 2010, there were 55 fewer safety - net health centers providing publicly supported contraceptive care in Texas than nine years earlier, and the remaining providers served 20 % fewer women than before.3

Sexual fantasies exist to serve many different functions, from enhancing sexual pleasure to expressing hidden desires (for a few fantasy examples, see A Top Ten List of Women's Sexual Fantasies and A Top Ten List of Men's Sexual Fantasies).

A new report confirms what reproductive health advocates predicted when Texas officials decided to kick Planned Parenthood out of a lifesaving, preventative Medicaid program: Far fewer women are being served.

Two years later, nearly 30,000 fewer women were receiving birth control, cancer screenings, and other care — and the Dallas Morning News reported that «the areas with the highest drops in the number of women served by [the program] occurred in areas where Planned Parenthood clinics shuttered.»

The Pain of Cuts - Programs served 52,984 fewer children and pregnant women in 2013 - 2014 than 2012 - 2013 because of the sequester.