Sentences with phrase «from women i met»

Some mothers have formed new mother's groups from the women they met in the course.

Not exact matches

In 2015, a survey of 200 senior - level women in Silicon Valley found that 66 percent of participants reported they were excluded from important meetings because of their gender, and 60 percent reported unwanted sexual advantages in the workplace.

When I ran an education company in New York, one with more than 100 teachers and employees, I met a Dominican - American woman from the Bronx named Beretzi.

«When women are, in effect, quarantined, banned from solitary meetings with male leaders, including prospective sponsors and career champions, their options for advancement, let alone professional flourishing, shrink,» they writes.

The group included players from all walks of basketball — role players, veterans, players with short - lived careers, star college players, successful women players — who had traveled from around the country, through a snowy New York, for the meeting.

«KPCB discriminates against [Ellen Pao] and other women by failing to promote them comparably to men, by compensating them less than men through lower salary, bonus and carried interest, by restricting the number of investments that women are allowed to make as compared to men, by failing to include junior women from meetings and discussions, by failing to provide equivalent sponsorship of women as of men, by failing to include junior women comparably to junior men in the interview process, and by failing to provide opportunities for visibility and success inside and outside the firm for women as compared to men.»

A bombshell report from the New York Times said a manager had been fired for groping women's breasts, employees had done cocaine in the bathrooms during company retreats, and a director had yelled gay slurs during meetings.

That information — augmented by advocacy efforts from such Addyi supporters as the National Organization for Women and National Consumers League — turned the tide, and the FDA's joint meeting of the Bone, Reproductive and Urologic Drugs Advisory Committee voted 18 to 6 to support approval for HSDD treatment, contingent on Sprout consenting to risk - mitigation measures like warnings and restrictions to prevent misuse.

But I was just amazed by how everyone, young and old wanted to be involved... and was so deeply enriched and touched by the experience and the laughter and the love I experienced from the people I met and how women would in particular open their hearts to me and tell me the stories of where they've come from, particularly because I have the language and was coming there as a woman and just how touched they were that I was there as a woman from England who's learned the language and who's an artist and running this project and come all the way to see them so they didn't feel forgotten I think that was pretty much what they felt... that their stories were being heard so they don't feel forgotten knowing the tents would be around the world.

This strategy of searching for common ground before a meeting was particularly effective when a new contact was more obviously dissimilar from a director, for example when a young black woman meeting with an older white man spent time considering their career parallels before their get together.

Meet with exhibitors from Federal, State and local governments, and Federal Government large business prime contractors who are looking for small, diverse suppliers, including minority, 8 (a), SDB, HUBZone participants, service - disabled veteran - owned, veteran - owned, and women - owned businesses.

From the WBE who doubled her business after meeting a supplier at a WBENC conference, to two small women - owned businesses partnering to scale up to meet the needs of a large corporation, these stories help showcase the benefits of certification and being a part of the WBENC network.

In an interview with USA TODAY following the meeting, Jackson said he stressed the need for Uber to hire more women and underrepresented minorities at all levels of the company, from the board of directors and the executive team to rank - and - file workers.

David Bonderman, an Uber board member and partner at private equity firm TPG, resigned from the board of the ride - hailing company after he made a disparaging remark about women at an Uber meeting on Tuesday.

From Welfare to 7 Figures — How Anything Is Possible: My Interview with Carrie Green for the She Means Business Podcast Founder of the Female Entrepreneur Association, Carrie Green is without a doubt one of the kindest, sweetest, and most determined women I have ever met.

In Silicon Valley, some male investors have declined one - on - one meetings with women, or rescheduled them from restaurants to conference rooms.

-- Two top public affairs officers at FEMA have resigned in the past month, with one woman describing the office culture as a «boy's club» and saying she was excluded from meetings because of her gender.

In a meeting during apec with Malcolm Turnbull, the new prime minister of Australia, Obama described how he has watched Indonesia gradually move from a relaxed, syncretistic Islam to a more fundamentalist, unforgiving interpretation; large numbers of Indonesian women, he observed, have now adopted the hijab, the Muslim head covering.

At another, the chief executive made inappropriate comments to attractive women applying for jobs, women were excluded from key meetings, important assignments and social outings and women who complained they felt unsafe with a male client who verbally harassed them were told to keep working with him because he was a «big spender,» recalls Perez, 36.

I met with these three women from two separate companies and I just wanted to give them some help.

«It will ensure that professional men, women and girls from around B.C. can meet again for a day of inspiration, learning, mentorship and action to support gender equity for current and future generations.»

So now we have two women having said they met Trump in the same type of room at the same hotel, with both reportedly receiving similar amounts of money from Trump allies shortly before the 2016 election.

From your experience, do you ever see or have you ever experienced the onus on the wife or women not being met?

A group of women I met in Malawi (on my recent trip to visit a number of Tearfund projects) didn't hold back from dancing at their finance meetings.

Church women's meetings were held in parishioners» homes and announced privately by phone to prevent the wife of the «outsider» minister from attending.

During this time, something remarkable happened: Women from my congregation whom I had never met began showing up at my house.

Maybe the reason I have such a fascination with the lights is that one explanation is that the glow is from the torch of a young woman named Amanda who is searching for her fiancé who never came to meet her on their wedding day.

Suppose it could be shown from past letters that my father met my mother because he missed his train, and so caught the one on which he found this beautiful young woman sitting; suppose, further, that a super-computer could show that some of my genes can be traced back to a small creature scrabbling about in the Triassic mud.

We are delighted to meet today women from the Maghreb, the land-less from Brazil..»

On a late November evening in 1867, two years after the end of the American Civil War, Celestia Ferris, chief washer - woman at the Bureau of Engraving, organized a prayer meeting not far from the U. S. Capitol.

It could be your mother, your sister, your wife, your best friend, your Sunday school teacher from long ago, a pastor, a mentor, a saint from centuries past, or even a woman you met for only a few minutes but whose presence changed you.

I met the woman who ran a local shelter for abused women and children, most of them from poor homes.

As the city has become the brothel of Europe, women have been imported by traffickers from Africa, Eastern Europe and Asia to meet the demand....

Editor's Note: The following «Extract from the speech of A. N. Whitehead, Esq., Sc.D., at the Annual Meeting of the Cambridge Women's Suffrage Association, Nov. 5, 1906» was published as a four - page pamphlet by the Cambridge Women's Suffrage Association (Mrs. J. Ward, 6 Selwyn Gardens, Hon. Sec.).

From the Bali Declaration, Asian Regional Meeting on Violence Against Women held in Bali, Indonesia, organized by WCC, the Christian Conference of Asia and the Asian Women's Human Rights Commission, 1 - 6 August 1993.

A friend of mine, deeply bereaved from the death of his wife, had received great comfort and support from his women friends, but his male friends seemed embarrassed to meet him.

Mentions of Betty Friedan, bra - burnings, and women's studies were met with sighs and eye - rolls from the audience.

The appointment was met with much criticism from those both within and outside of the Church who said someone who wasn't in favour of ordaining women shouldn't be allowed to take on a senior role.

Several women's groups turned from primary concern with the institutional church to community projects, as a result of the «new flavor» developed in the groups through interpersonal deepening.20 It has been my experience that many larger church meetings, including worship services, can be enlivened by incorporating small group communication and awareness experiences into the proceedings.

Mary Somerville, overcoming, as her daughter says, «obstacles apparently insurmountable, at a time when women were well - nigh totally debarred from education»; Charlotte Bronte, writing in secret and publishing under a pseudonym because only so could she hope for just criticism; Harriet Hunt, admitted to the Harvard Medical School in 1850 but forced out by the enraged students; Elizabeth Blackwell, applying to twelve medical schools before she could secure admission, and meeting with insult and contumely in her endeavor to study and practice medicine; Mary Lyon, treated as a wild fanatic because she wanted American girls to be educated — such figures are typical in woman's struggle for intellectual opportunity.

Here is a story from Sam Riviera about how he showed tangible love and concern for a woman he met outside of Walmart.

From her therapeutic work with women, Miriam Polster describes the ways in which our sexist society alienates many women from their strengths, teaching them to retroflect their real feelings and manipulate men to try to get their needs met: «Growing up a woman in our society leaves a psychological residue that cripples and deforms all but the most exceptional womanFrom her therapeutic work with women, Miriam Polster describes the ways in which our sexist society alienates many women from their strengths, teaching them to retroflect their real feelings and manipulate men to try to get their needs met: «Growing up a woman in our society leaves a psychological residue that cripples and deforms all but the most exceptional womanfrom their strengths, teaching them to retroflect their real feelings and manipulate men to try to get their needs met: «Growing up a woman in our society leaves a psychological residue that cripples and deforms all but the most exceptional woman....

In fact, from the people I have met, it may very be the single greatest reason men and women choose to leave the Church altogether.

O Mankind wake up... educate urself to the truth and get out of the darkness... and fear ur Lord who created you from one soul and He created his wife from him and then men and women from them... fear your Lord that you will be meeting Him after this short life... you are here for a test of «Free Will» whether you fear the Lord who created you or fear your delusion / imaginations... and you are heading towards your Creator...

The Day I Met Jesus: The Revealing Diaries of Five Women from the Gospels by Frank Viola and Mary Demuth

Jeremy i am surprised you never countered my argument Up till now the above view has been my understanding however things change when the holy spirit speaks.He amazes me because its always new never old and it reveals why we often misunderstand scripture in the case of the woman caught in adultery.We see how she was condemned to die and by the grace of God Jesus came to her rescue that seems familar to all of us then when they were alone he said to her Go and sin no more.This is the point we misunderstand prior to there meeting it was all about her death when she encountered Jesus something incredible happened he turned a death situation into life situation so from our background as sinners we still in our thinking and understanding dwell in the darkness our minds are closed to the truth.In effect what Jesus was saying to her and us is chose life and do nt look back that is what he meant and that is the walk we need to live for him.That to me was a revelation it was always there but hidden.Does it change that we need discipline in the church that we need rules and guidelines for our actions no we still need those things.But does it change how we view non believers and even ourselves definitely its not about sin but its all about choosing life and living.He also revealed some other interesting things on salvation so i might mention those on the once saved always saved discussion.Jeremy just want to say i really appreciate your website because i have not really discussed issues like this and it really is making me press in to the Lord for answers to some of those really difficult questions.regards brentnz

From personal experience i was in a church who has the whole congregation pray for 1/2 hour in tongues.The people in this church were leaders from Africa.A place who sees more supernatural then us because we feel the need to analyze the thing to death.When we did the atmosphere shifted lives were changed.When i was on a mission trip to Mexico i felt lead to go pray with the women who in that culture are outcasts one of ladies who came with me started singing in the spirit as i was we stopped each other in shock when we realized we were sing the same song the needs of the women were met with out an interrupFrom personal experience i was in a church who has the whole congregation pray for 1/2 hour in tongues.The people in this church were leaders from Africa.A place who sees more supernatural then us because we feel the need to analyze the thing to death.When we did the atmosphere shifted lives were changed.When i was on a mission trip to Mexico i felt lead to go pray with the women who in that culture are outcasts one of ladies who came with me started singing in the spirit as i was we stopped each other in shock when we realized we were sing the same song the needs of the women were met with out an interrupfrom Africa.A place who sees more supernatural then us because we feel the need to analyze the thing to death.When we did the atmosphere shifted lives were changed.When i was on a mission trip to Mexico i felt lead to go pray with the women who in that culture are outcasts one of ladies who came with me started singing in the spirit as i was we stopped each other in shock when we realized we were sing the same song the needs of the women were met with out an interrupter.

From the parable of the Good Samaritan, to meeting the samaritan woman at the well, Jesus shocked the culture of his time by ignoring accepted tribal divisions.

And it came to pass as they came, when David returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, that the women came out of all the cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet king Saul, with timbrels, with joy, and with instruments of music.

In Matthew Jesus himself meets the women as they run from the tomb to tell the disciples; in Luke he does not meet them; in John he meets only Mary Magdalene, not as she goes to tell the disciples about the empty sepulcher but after two disciples themselves have visited it.