Sentences with phrase «first woman from»

It is also this constant and untiring engagement which led to her being the first woman from Africa to receive the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004.

You are the first woman from Africa to be honoured with the Nobel Peace Prize.

Patino grew up in Ecuador and became the first woman from her town to earn a college degree.

Sofia Coppola was the third woman (the first woman from the U.S.) to ever be nominated for the Best Director Academy Award for her sophomore feature, which she also wrote.

She is also the United National Development Program Goodwill Ambassador, the first woman from Saudi Arabia to hold that post.

Namira has undertaken pioneering peace expeditions to all three poles of the world, and is the first Pakistani and first woman from Monaco and the UAE to have reached the North and South Poles in 2007/08, as well as the first Asian to skydive (tandem) over Mount Everest, during the first historic Everest Skydive in 2008.

If elected, she'd be the first woman from Suffolk County elected to the Senate.

That match was considered a huge upset, and Maroulis will go down as the first woman from the United States to win a gold in wrestling.

Sarah Attar finished in last place in the Women's 800m Round 1 Heats, but made history — she was the first woman from Saudi Arabia to compete in track and field.

The 17 - year - old weightlifter is the first woman from the United Arab Emirates ever to qualify for the Games.

Not exact matches

Only 10 women have given birth while serving in Congress, and Duckworth is the first from the Senate to do this.

When I first started, it would take me anywhere from three to six days to make a video, because I was kind of a one - woman show.

From Women's Hockey to the First African Bobsledding Team: Five Stories to Watch During the PyeongChang Winter Olympics

The first woman to receive a doctorate in physics from Cambridge University, Dr. Blodgett created non-reflective coatings for eyeglasses and «improved lenses used in cinematography.»

This tip isn't for everyone, but for some high - powered women a little separation from their phones first thing in the morning is key to kicking off the day at a humane pace.

She rose from immigrant roots up the industry ladder to become creative lead of her own multimillion - dollar women's wear fashion brand, and then endured a series of nasty breakups — first with her ex-husband and then with Jones Apparel Group, the fashion behemoth that licensed and marketed her creations.

That's the first finding in this week's economic research wrap, which also looks at changes in the way women have spent their days in recent years and summarizes studies on spillovers from central bank balance - sheet normalization.

In my 2007 book about Lazard, I tell the story of Mina Gerowin, the first woman banker at Lazard and her arrival at the firm in 1980, fresh from Harvard Business School, where she was a Baker Scholar.

Recent data from Redfin found that 46 percent of women buying alone said they first evaluate a home based on whether they love it, compared to 24 percent of men buying alone.

From summer intern to CEO, Burns became the first black woman CEO of a Fortune 500 company in 2009, after 29 years at Xerox.

It seems Watson's taken a page from her character: During her first big speech as a United Nations Women's Goodwill Ambassador, she once again worked to inspire bravery in men.

New research from Female Founders Fund confirms a trend that first popped up about six months ago: Relative to women entrepreneurs raising money in other parts of the country, women in New York are killing it.

As forklifts beep and spin, teams of men and women on the first of three daily shifts are assembling dash mats, acoustical automobile components that insulate a vehicle's interior from engine noise.

Take just a few minutes out of your day to watch this short trailer announcing Firsts, a multi-media project from TIME featuring candid interviews with 45 extraordinary women, more than a year in the making.

Phin Barnes, a partner at First Round Capital and an investor in startup Modern Fertility, says the number of pitches he sees from companies addressing women's health care has increased about 10 times in the past five years.

Wonder Woman's symbolic value has been equivocal from the character's inception, decades before she first made the cover of Ms. Magazine.

The number first appeared in a German manual for midwives published in 1836, and it's an estimate from a woman's last period all the way through to birth.

Back in the beginning of the year, serial entrepreneur and startup investor Jason Calacanis launched Inside.com, which he called «a mobile - first news reader that's full of external links and story summaries,» with topics ranging from Google to Wonder Woman.

Isabel Dos Santos, the woman listed by Forbes as Africa's first female billionaire, has been unceremoniously fired from her post as head of Angola's national oil company Sonangol, according to newswire reports.

Our first annual list of seven of the most innovative woman leaders from technology to retail to health and more.

Fox News parent Twenty - First Century Fox (fox) announced on Wednesday it had parted ways with the star cable news host, ending his more than 20 - year career, following the allegations from a number of women.

In 2016, just 4.6 percent of women and 2.9 percent of men first claiming Social Security benefits were age 70 or older, according to the latest data from the Social Security Administration.

In January Xerox's Ursula Burns, who became the first black woman CEO on the list in 2009, stepped down from her post.

WWE recently signed Shadia Bseiso from Jordan, the first Arab woman in the company.

An example from the games this year is Serena and Venus Williams, who have won the women's doubles in the Olympics three times but lost in the first round at Rio.

Recognized for being the first woman to run a Fortune 50 business, Fiorina was the CEO of Hewlett - Packard from 1999 to 2005.

The Slaight Family Foundation has committed to providing that money over the next five years to 15 non-profit organizations that are engaged with the First Nations, Inuit and Métis on a wide range of initiatives, from health and education to cultural activities and preventing violence against Indigenous women.

Ranked second in the world by the Women's Tennis Association after Serena Williams, Sharapova said she first conceived the idea for a candy business when she was forced to take a break from tennis due to a serious shoulder injury, and did not know whether she would be able to play tennis again.

Pam Locke, who serves as Askew's mentor, was one of two African - American women to graduate from West Point's first class of women in 1980.

A woman in Tempe, Ariz., died after being hit by a self - driving car operated by Uber, in what is believed to be the first fatality of a pedestrian from an autonomous vehicle on public roads.

A 70 - year - old woman rides on a Tesla Model S with the autopilot system on for the first time, and her reaction is far from thrilled and more on borderline terrified.

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She received one of the first Wallerstein Grants from the Women's Roundtable in 2012, and she gives back by conducting workshops for various professional networking groups.

Jennifer Fonstad among Marie Claire's «Portraits of Power: 64 Insanely Inspiring Women from Our First - Ever #PowerTrip» See portraits on Marie Claire...

At the 2015 Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit (clockwise from top left): IBM Chairman and CEO Ginni Rometty; First Lady Michelle Obama; Fortune's Pattie Sellers with Ivanka Trump, Founder and CEO, Ivanka Trump Collection; General Motors CEO Mary Barra.

«When we first boarded the ship, the Norwegian captain, a very nice guy, he went to me and said «Mr. Bezos, I've taken the liberty, because your mother's on board — we've never had a woman on board before — of removing all the pornography from the common areas.

Jennifer Fonstad among Marie Claire's «Portraits of Power: 64 Insanely Inspiring Women from Our First - Ever #PowerTrip»

«From all research we've done in the past several weeks, The Vancouver Board of Trade is the first and only business organization of our kind in Canada — possibly across North America — to have more women on our board of directors than men,» said Manning, who also serves as Regional Vice-President of Commercial Financial Services at RBC Royal Bank.

Velázquez, a Democrat from New York, is the first Puerto Rican woman to be elected to Congress, and she was the chair of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus until January 3, 2011.

Ms. Freeland, who has been banned from Russia for her strong support of Ukraine, is the first woman to be the top diplomat since Barbara McDougall held the job from 1991 - 93.